Maisie, a plain girl from The Outlands, promises her dying mother she'll save her younger sister from a dire aging curse. When she plucks a magic rose deep in the dark forest called The Doove, she's thrust into an extraordinary world and becomes everyone's pawn…

A narrow escape. A flight out of darkness. Into the light and a realm beyond imagination and wonder. But is the Seelie Realm prepared for the Grayling Fae? Maisie Jayne Rose has been “rescued” from the clutches of the mortal king’s henchmen by fae warriors from the Seelie Court. Or has she? When the fae warriors present her to Raiden, the Fairy King, she realizes she’s very much his prisoner… The Seelie Court is the court of Spring and Summer, full of light and magic. But autumn and winter are coming. Frost has fallen in the brilliant gardens and forests of the Seelie. And with the unnatural changing of seasons, danger increases that the Seelie Realm will fall to the dark powers of the Fairy Queen, ruler of the Unseelie Court of Autumn and Winter. If the Seelie Realm falls, the Mortal Realm will follow… Maisie meets Rylan, the Fairy King’s son and begins to realize that the Seelie may need her as much as she needs them…