Heather M. Fawcett

Renowned faerie scholar Emily Wilde must navigate the deadly intrigues of a faerie realm as they seize Wendell's throne and race to break a deadly curse, in the third novel of the series following Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands.

A Novel

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

jade

"Dogs are proper companions, not the physical manifestation of caprice."

LMAOOO Lord Taran is shaping up to be one of the best parts of this story

"I will go on ahead. Naturally,  everyone is expecting you to appear at some point, and so a number of the queen's soldiers are lying in wait for you at various places around the castle grounds. I will get them out of the way, at least. Then you can sweep in and terrify us all with your sewing kit, my lord."

I glared at him, and he raised his eyebrows innocently. "No? Broom collection, perhaps?"

Holly 

“If you desire to sit in some corner of the castle hunched over your books and notepaper, bestirring yourself only to demand a tour of some brownie market or bogle den, then it will be done." 

I let out a trembling breath. “And what sort of queen would that make me?" 

He looked perfectly earnest as he leaned in to kiss my cheek. "Mine."

I would sleep here if the librarians would allow it, but while most of them have received me with kindness and welcome, the head librarian is a tyrannical sort, and seems already to disapprove of me and my many requests, even seeing fit to lecture me for leaving the special collections room in disarray, so I doubt such a request would be well received. One would think books existed simply to be looked at and occasionally dusted, the way that man carries on. And if the filing system differs from Cambridge's, is it my fault if this occasionally leads me to misplace things?

He took no interest in my reaction. I am bored most of the time. Bored of politics and adventure and feasting and quar- relling. Of vengeance and loyalty. I have learned there is one thing a person never tires of, no matter how long they live. ta t And that is being in love. All else is ash and enmber." Wendell loved his home." I said. That is why he gaye his

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