Emily Wilde is a brilliant, curmudgeon Cambridge professor and the world's foremost expert on dryadology. Driven and socially awkward, she travels to the remote, snowy village of Liosa to conduct field research for the world’s first encyclopedia of faerie folklore.
Her solitary work is disrupted when her charming, insufferably popular academic rival, Wendell Bambleby, unexpectedly shows up to join her. As Emily digs deeper into the dangerous mysteries of the local Folk lurking in the surrounding forest, she must navigate deadly magical bargains, village secrets, and her own complicated feelings for Wendell, who harbors a major secret of his own.
Emily Wilde is a brilliant, curmudgeon Cambridge professor and the world's foremost expert on dryadology. Driven and socially awkward, she travels to the remote, snowy village of Liosa to conduct field research for the world’s first encyclopedia of faerie folklore.
Her solitary work is disrupted when her charming, insufferably popular academic rival, Wendell Bambleby, unexpectedly shows up to join her. As Emily digs deeper into the dangerous mysteries of the local Folk lurking in the surrounding forest, she must navigate deadly magical bargains, village secrets, and her own complicated feelings for Wendell, who harbors a major secret of his own.