Shadow's Legacy

Friends and family gather in Faery for the wedding of Meghan Chase's brother. Meghan is the Iron Queen, and the celebration should be a happy one. One guest cannot share the mood: the King of the Forgotten, who still mourns a lost love.

He slips away from the festivities and is attacked by a strange faery. The attacker names him a fraud and a false king. The fight leaves both of them with a problem neither can solve alone.

They agree to a wary alliance. Something new is moving through Faery, a creature of rage and hatred, and it endangers the peace the courts have only recently won. The two set out to track it.

The Iron Fey fantasy world is the setting for this short novella, which leads into the Evenfall trilogy and is numbered 0.5 in that series. It makes a brief opening before the longer books. The open question is who the assassin really is, and why he denies the King of the Forgotten his crown.