When wealthy sorcerer Hollin Perry hires young Nimira to perform with a piano playing automaton, Nimira believes it is her ticket to a better life. She encounters a madwoman roaming the halls at night and a mechanical man so realistically crafted it hardly seems possible he isn’t alive...or is he? Nimira senses something stirring beneath his handsome features, is he haunted or is there something m
ore to it? What she finds will put the fate of the entire magical world in danger—and force her to choose between a man she cannot have and a man she does not love.
For Nimira, awakening Erris from the spell that trapped him in clockwork form was only the beginning. Now she is determined to see her beloved fairy prince restored to his flesh-and-body self...and perhaps to the throne. But in their search for a spell to aid their cause they stumble upon a secret— another member of the lost royal family, whose existence has been kept hidden from the human and fairy worlds alike, pursued by an assassin from within the fairy world, and the smoldering embers of an age old battle between humans and fairies about to reignite, Nimira must confront an impossible truth: that the only way to free the man she loves may be to entrust him to the very enemy who is hunting him.
