Kayla Winters is no stranger to struggling, but the past year was too much, even for her. With a chronic illness that seems to have taken a turn for the worse, a degree she’s all but failing and the guilt that’s been plaguing her ever since her mother’s death, Kayla knows she needs to reclaim her life.

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What she doesn’t need is to discover that the world she knows—the world every human knows—is only one half of an unimaginable whole. And as if being whisked to a place of myth and magic isn’t enough, there’s Declan, the handsome elven prince who can read her emotions. He crashes through her careful defences with the intensity of a shooting star. Even worse, the more time Kayla spends with this male, the more home is starting to mean something else.

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Yet when the villain of her fairy tale turns out to be Declan’s own father—a king with mind-controlling powers, an obsession with gaining entrance into the human realm and the almost certainty that her blood is the key to his conquering dreams, Kayla realises one thing:

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Falling in love is easy; it’s the happily ever after that’s shrouded in shadows.