This book wouldn't have been possible without the help of a mortal, so I thank Hailey Melton for agreeing to write it all down. These are the tales of my adventures in the mortal lands, told chapter by chapter. I do hope you enjoy it, even if I didn't at the time. Yours sincerely, R.B.Taylor

Everett Collins is a pianist living in a small New York City apartment. He's a classic case of the boy finally getting out of his small hometown, with a messy past he's not quite ready to confront just yet. He thinks he's finally made it, a steady job pursuing his dream and a best friend to party with on the weekends. Until a man from his past shows up unannounced, and he's nothing like the boy Everett knew.

It's been centuries since the faerie kingdom interacted with mortals. No one knows why the kingdom suddenly shut itself off from the world, only that one day thick thorny vines covered the trees surrounding the edges of the lands. Some mortals have tried to brave the wall, only to turn up a few days later dead on a riverbank. So why on earth did I survive?

Two kingdoms, a fallen king, a lost prince and a war on the horizon. "What binds a man to his land? What power within allows him to give his life to preserve his land and the lives of those who work it? I once believed it to be loyalty, now I see that it is love."

Everyone knows the rumors surrounding the young Duke of Slatyrwood. They say he killed his entire family, sent their manor up in flames at the age of twelve. No one has seen the man's entire face, for he wears a mask covering his nose and mouth...