Aislinn confides her secret to her friend Seth, whose steel-walled home (an abandoned train) protects her from the fey. Beira offers Donia a deal: prevent Keenan from finding his proper queen, and Beira will release her spell over her soul. Keenan has chosen incorrectly over the years the latest to accept his offer is Donia, who now lives in Beira’s icy thrall. He is the Summer King, on a centuries-long quest for his queen, the one person who will be able to help him unseat his vicious mother, Beira, the Winter Queen. They were out in droves now, freer somehow as evening fell, invading her space, ending any chance of the peace she’d sought.” One of them, the handsome Keenan, takes a particular interest in her. “Even when she looked away, she heard them: laughing and squealing, gnashing teeth and beating wings. Seventeen-year-old Aislinn has a secret she sees fairies everywhere-working their mischief and doggedly following her for reasons she does not understand. First-time novelist Marr gives the oft-tried modern faerie story a fresh infusion of glamour, thanks to a likable pair of protagonists, a page-turning plot and an ample dose of sexual tension.
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