The Magpie's Brood

When Morgan Patterson came to Northern Ireland for a college year abroad, she didn't expect to meet the man of her dreams, Tiernan Doherty. Except Tiernan wasn't a man at all. He was the hereditary lord of an ancient faerie kingdom, who had an enduring chain of duty to the wicked faerie queen, Em. Even more burdensome is Tiernan's debt to the morally ambiguous Connor Doyle--the man who has threatened everything Morgan loves and Tiernan wants.

Now Morgan is married to Connor, not Tiernan. And Tiernan, he's doing something he said he never would. He's marrying the evil Em. Both marriages were meant to secure peace in the faerie kingdoms of the North but after Tiernan's marriage, something terrible occurs. It's a crime no one would have dared imagine and because of it, any hope of peace is threatened.

In a surprising move, Morgan is tasked with solving the crime, but it soon becomes apparent much more is at stake than simply bringing the culprits to justice. Will Morgan learn what the true motive for the crime is before the longstanding truce between the faerie kingdoms and humans is shattered--or someone truly dear to Morgan must pay the cost for this attempt to overthrow the standing faerie monarchy?