Don’t touch garden gnomes; don’t talk to trees; if a bird watches you for too long, run away; and most of all, always, don’t go too deep into the forest—the list of rules Elysia grew up with didn’t make it easy for her to sneak out and meet her hovering guardian angel, Dae, the little boy with goats horns and silvery eyes who watches her grow up from deep within the forest thicket.

Still, somehow, she found a way. And kept finding a way night after night, even when his horns grew into a dark halo, his cheeks sharpened out into knives, and his eyes hardened with secrets. Even when his long restless fingers tap-tap-tapped as he struggled to come to a decision—what that decision was, she wasn’t sure. Even when he threw her against a tree and told her never, ever to kiss anyone else as long as she lived.

Sure, he’s got secrets. And dark impulses. But she has secrets too. Ones she’ll take to her grave. Ones she’ll hide—even from herself.

But when Elysia’s Dad goes missing and Dae kidnaps her, depositing her in a magical land far from earth to work as a slave for the evil Faeries, Elysia realises it’s time to come to grips with who she is, what she’s hiding, and what she feels for Dae…and…Obi?