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Once, we'd worshipped them as Gods.

For nearly 400 years, the Veil has protected us from the Fae of Alfheimr. In their absence, our lives have shifted from decadence and sin to survival and virtue under the guidance of the New Gods. I've spent my entire life tending to the gardens next to the boundary between our worlds, drawn to the shimmering magic like a moth to the flame.

Then, we died on their swords.

All of that changes the day the Veil shatters, unleashing the fae upon our world once again. The magic of faerie marks those of us they mean to take, but the Mist Guard protecting Nothrek will kill us all before they let the fae have us. There's no choice but to flee everything I've ever known, not if I want to live to see my twenty-first birthday as a free woman.

Now, they'll claim what's theirs.

But before they capture me, Caelum saves me from the Wild Hunt. Fae-marked and on the run, he is able to fight back in ways I only dream of. From tentative alliance to all-consuming passion, our bond strengthens as the fae close in and evil lurks ever nearer. With my life on the line, he is everything I shouldn't dare to want and a distraction I can't afford. I can't seem to stay away, not even with something greater on the line.

My heart.

Once, I fell in love with a man who deceived me. Then, he revealed the truth of who he is.

For weeks, Caelum seduced me with whispered promises and manipulative half-truths. He used his deception to ensnare my heart and enrapture my body. I'd already begun to suspect there was more to him than met the eye.

But the truth was so much worse than I could have expected.

He is Caldris--a God only spoken of in hushed tones and with whispered words. Somehow, he is my mate.

He's determined to drag me back to Alfheimr with him, whether I like it or not. But the Mist Guard have sworn to keep us from crossing onto Faerie soil. They blamed me when the Veil fell.

Now they want me to pay the price to restore it.

Once, I'd chosen my mate instead of freedom. Then, I woke up in a cage of my own making.

For weeks, I denied the evidence in front of me, unable to fathom that I wasn't the lost princess of Faerie. Instead, it is Fallon who must fear the consequences of her heritage.

But the games of the Fae and the cruel Queen Mab know no bounds.

She keeps all of Alfheimr held squirming within her clawed grasp, strengthened by the cursed gem atop her crown. I am not her daughter, but she keeps me close anyway. She sees me as a weapon to be wielded against those who would be my allies.

Mab may not own me yet, but she controls the life of the man I love. There is nothing I wouldn't do to see him freed.

Even if I have to become the villain to do it.

Once, I bartered my soul to save my mate. Now, the Fates demand my life instead.

Offering Mab my bound allegiance was the only way to save Caldris's life. But Queen Mab only wants one thing from me.

A tribute.

She demands a snake from the crown of Medusa?a being that lives in the depths of Tartarus. It can only be won by passing the Trials of the Five Rivers without magic and standing victorious where all others have failed

Survival is dependent on so much more than my physical strength. It hinges on my ability to understand who and what I am.

Embracing the light and the dark is the only way I will save Caldris, the Fae, and the humans from Mab's reign.

Even if it kills me in the process.