Emily Wilde is one of the world's foremost scholars of dryadology — the study of faeries — and by far the most awkward. Brilliant, blunt, and far more comfortable with folklore than with people, she arrives in the tiny, snowbound northern village of Hrafnsvik to complete her life's work: the first comprehensive encyclopaedia of faerie lore. What she lacks in social grace she intends to make up for in rigor, cataloguing the local Hidden Ones one careful field note at a time.
Her plans are complicated by two things. The first is the villagers, whom she keeps offending. The second is her insufferably charming academic rival, Wendell Bambleby, who follows her to Hrafnsvik with secrets of his own — including one about his true nature that could change everything between them.
Told through Emily's wry journal entries, Heather Fawcett's cozy fantasy blends folklore, mystery, and a slow-burn romance into a warm, witty adventure among the Folk — perfect for readers who like their faeries genuinely dangerous and their heroines gloriously prickly.