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“It’s easy to get cursed in Fairy Hill.”

Author Wilshire is not afraid of faeries. She’s grown up fae-blessed with a gift that lets her narrate true stories of the world around her and a seal of protection from a member of the High Court. The forest of Fairy Hill is her home just as much as the town is. That’s why she was able to befriend the foreign fae boy she called Nuisance, who told her stories of a very different forest and their Spider Prince.

But it’s been three years since she last saw Nuisance and there’s something dangerous lurking in the forest. When her oldest friend, Eddie, is transformed into a spider, Author struggles to find a way to reverse it. Not even the local witches have any ideas. Maybe the Spider Prince from Nuisance’s stories could help…

If he wasn’t cursed too.

“You flinch at house spiders. I am much more dangerous than they are.”

It’s been six months since she moved to Lockswood and Edna Koch likes to think she’s adjusting well. Her magic is growing stronger as she trains with the witch Darling and every day they try something new to break her curse. She’s even settling into being considered a member of the Fae Courts by nature of her friendships with the monarchy. And if the Spider Prince teases her at every turn, well, she knows how he is about humans.

But when the Queen of Lockswood returns and King Pan is exiled from the throne, Edna and her magic will be pushed to new extremes as she fights for her new home. With her friends—including re-enforcements from her hometown of Fairy Hill—she’s thrust into the world of fae politics, espionage, and magic like she’s never been before.

She’s going to have to be brave.

“It’s a lot to risk for a girl you don’t remember and a faerie you don’t trust.” 

There’s a faerie in Eddie Karpinski’s bedroom, and he’s claiming that they’re friends. Eddie has no memory of Nuisance or the Spider Prince who joins them in the city later, but the fae are insistent. Armed only with an iron knife—which is next to useless against fae this powerful—Eddie has little choice but to stay close and keep alert. These alleged friends say that there’s a girl’s life at stake and Eddie can’t abandon a human to the Wild Hunt.

And then there’s the dreams that have plagued Eddie for months. Dreams of fighting the Wild Hunt and winning, dreams of spiders and bees, dreams that might actually be the memories that Eddie doesn’t otherwise have. They create more questions than they answer and Eddie struggles to believe the answers anyway. The fae might only speak the truth, but that doesn’t make them honest. 

Unfortunately, Eddie’s going to have to rely on them.