His voice is soft, and I make the mistake of looking into his black eyes, at his wicked, curving mouth.
'But your beauty will fade,' he continues, just as softly, speaking like a lover. 'And all you have and all you are will rot away to nothing. You will be nothing. You are nothing.'
As the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is reeling from Cardan's betrayal and is determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose life is in peril. Jude must return to the trecherous Faerie Court and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan.
But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing, and she becomes ensnared in the conflict's bloody politics. When a terrible curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing Jude to choose between her ambition and her humanity...
The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Folk of the Air series