In the early 1900s a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore
where she discovers dark fae magic friendship and love. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is
good at many things: She is the foremost expert on dryadology the study of faeries. She is a
genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encylopedia of
faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a
party--much less get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books her dog Shadow
and the Fair Folk to that of friends or lovers. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village
of Hransvik Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to
spend time with another new arrival: the dashing and insufferably handsome Wendell Bambleby
who manages to charm the townsfolk get in the middle of her research and utterly confound and
frustrate Emily. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden
Ones--the most elusive of all faeries--lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town she also
finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby and what does he really
want? To find the answer she'll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all--her own heart--
