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Margaret K. McElderry
October 2017
On Sale: September 26, 2017
Featuring: Isobel; Rook
304 pages
ISBN: 1481497588
EAN: 9781481497589
Kindle: B06ZXWGVDC
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Young Adult Fantasy
A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courtsβeven as she falls in love with a faerie princeβin this gorgeous debut novel. Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobelβs paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patronβRook, the autumn princeβshe makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyesβa weakness that could cost him his life. Furious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime. Waylaid by the Wild Huntβs ghostly hounds, the tainted influence of the Alder King, and hideous monsters risen from barrow mounds, Isobel and Rook depend on one another for survival. Their alliance blossoms into trust, then loveβand that love violates the fair folksβ ruthless laws. Now both of their lives are forfeit, unless Isobel can use her skill as an artist to fight the fairy courts. Because secretly, her Craft represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all the millennia of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her portraits have the power to make them feel.
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