Heather Fawcett

Emily Wilde Series: Emily Wilde's History of Dark Faerie Heather Fawcett

Curmudgeonly scholar Emily Wilde must brave the beautiful but haunted Black Forest and open a portal to a long-lost, eldritch realm dreaded by the Folk, in this fourth instalment of the bestselling Emily Wilde series. Driven by an insatiable scientific curiosity, Emily Wilde has made a name for herself as the worlds foremost scholar of faeries. Along the way, shes rescued a faerie kingdom and helped her now-husband - fellow professor Wendell Bambleby, dashing and infuriating in equal measure - regain his throne. And while understanding her fellow mortals has never been her strong suit, shes also made a small number of friends. But two years later, one of those friends goes missing in the beautiful but faerie-haunted Black Forest in Germany, a region of picturesque villages and sinister Folk. And if shes to save him, Emily will have to reckon with the darker side of her own nature, and how ruthless shes prepared to be to solve the most tantalising of scholarly mysteries: the history of the ancient and long-lost realm shes named Dark Faerie, the only place the Folk fear. But Emily is not alone - she has her beloved Wendell, and her niece Ariadne, who hopes to follow in her footsteps. Told from the perspective of all three characters, this instalment of the Emily Wilde series opens a magical portal to the most wondrous and dread faerie realm of all. Forget dark academia: give me instead this kind of winter-sunshined, sharp-tongued and footnoted academia, full of field trips and grumpy romance. - Freya Marske, author of A Marvellous Light. A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic, this book wholly enchanted me. - Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.