The Seelie and Unseelie Courts are both in plague-ravaged tatters. The Wild Hunt roams unchecked, taking who and what it will, and the walls between the human world and the world of the sidhe are thinning rapidly. Jeremy Gallow is the only hope of human and sidhe both.
But all Gallow wants to do is find Robin Ragged . . . and survive. Unfortunately, everyone who meets him has other plans. Including the Ragged, who is fleeing for her life - and the King of Unwinter, whose poisoned blade has cut deep into Jeremy's flesh . . .