In an effort to find her missing grandfather, Emeline enters the forest of Edgewood where she discovers not only that the stories of the fabled Wood King and his mythical court are true, but that her Pa's life is in danger and only she can save him--along with a handsome and brooding tithe collector, a surly blacksmith, and a lost childhood friend.
When her grandfather disappears, leaving only a mysterious orb in his wake, the stories Emeline Lark has always scoffed at suddenly seem less foolish. She enters the forest of Edgewood, which she has spent years trying to escape. Hawthorne Fell, a tithe collector, tries to dissuade her from the search, but she refuses to be deterred. At the court of the fabled Wood King himself she makes a deal: her voice for her grandfather's freedom. Little does she know she has stumbled into the middle of a curse much bigger than herself-- one that threatens the existence of this eerie world she is trapped in. -- adapted from jacket