To name a thing is to see it, and no one can see the folk if they don’t want to be seen.
Trixie Gerwin’s hometown of Wood’s Crossing is mind-numbingly dull—but she knows that a beguiling world of fae and magic lurks in the shadows. Growing up, it felt to Trixie like her Pops spent more time with them—those creatures, Mama used to say—than in their own world, with her.
When Trixie sneaks home past curfew the night of graduation, she expects Pops to give her the usual talking-to. Instead, her world is shattered: She witnesses his brutal murder in a moment so sudden, so uncanny, so inhuman, that she’s powerless to stop it. The townies, willfully blind to what surrounds them, will blame wild animals. They’ll call it an accident, a tragedy. They’ll expect Trixie to move on.
But Trixie saw the unknowable thing that really did this. And she won’t let the fae get away with it. Pulled into a war full of intrigue, deceit, and temptation, Trixie will stop at nothing in her fight for vengeance—for Pops, for Wood’s Crossing. No matter what it takes.
 

• Fae courts and forbidden alliances: Trixie is pulled into a dangerous conflict between the rival Seelie and Unseelie courts, where the lines between friend and enemy blur, and every alliance comes with a hidden cost.
• Slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance: The tension between Trixie and faerie warrior Lariel builds chapter by chapter through mistrust, stolen glances, and reluctant acts of protection—the pull is undeniable long before either admits it.
• Chosen one with a cursed legacy: Trixie carries a rare Second Sight and discovers she is the latest in a bloodline supernaturally bound to the fae through a dark ancestral bargain, making her both powerful and a target.
• Mortal girl in an immortal world: Trixie, a Black teen from small-town South Carolina, is thrust into a glittering, treacherous faerie realm where time bends, glamours deceive, and her humanity is both her greatest vulnerability and greatest weapon.