From New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre comes a wild new adventure in faery

Thea Winter has been stolen. She’s the other side of the changeling story, but what happens to a psychic vampire who’s taken to faery in place of a fae child? In Thea’s case, once they realized the substitution, her adoptive parents Rain and Fen were far more interested in searching for their lost child than looking after Thea. She was mostly raised by an eccentric hobgoblin named Mudge, who disliked the high fae for being a bunch of stodgy, pretentious gits. 

Mudge taught her wildcraft, how to know when the coin-sith would attack and how to get one to show its belly. Unfortunately, the one thing Mudge didn’t teach Thea was how to stay out of trouble. Which is how she wound up bartered by their relatives in a marriage of convenience.  

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But she’s married in name only, as her husband absconded on their wedding night. In fact, she’s never even seen his face. 

Her mission? To build a team and track him down before the houses of Summer and Winter go to war. Again.  

It’s not an easy task, but it’s better than sitting around waiting for the other shoe to drop. She’s already lost favor with both houses because of her predilection for getting lost in the wilds, spending time with the lower fae. Portal magic is her favorite, and she never met a stone circle she didn’t dash into, just to see where it leads. She loves wild adventures and she’d rather be drinking fae wine with a bunch of brownies than pay attention to courtly etiquette. Brownies really do know how to party.

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If people would just leave her alone, things would be so much better. But tensions are mounting between houses of Summer and Winter, and Thea has a long way to fall. After she accidentally set the pookas free to run amok in the Summer palace courtyard, she’s attracting all the wrong sorts of attention. People are starting to say she’s more trouble than she’s worth.

She has to make this marriage work. Or else.