Kayla Winters is no stranger to struggling, but the past year was too much, even for her. With a chronic illness that seems to have taken a turn for the worse, a degree she's all but failing and the guilt that's been plaguing her ever since her mother's death, Kayla knows she needs to reclaim her life. What she doesn't need is to discover that the world she knows-the world every human knows-is only one half of an unimaginable whole. And as if being whisked to a place of myth and magic isn't enough, there's Declan, the handsome elven prince who can read her emotions. He crashes through her careful defences with the intensity of a shooting star. Even worse, the more time Kayla spends with this male, the more home is starting to mean something else. Yet when the villain of her fairy tale turns out to be Declan's own father-a king with mind-controlling powers, an obsession with gaining entrance into the human realm and the almost certainty that her blood is the key to his conquering dreams, Kayla realises one thing: Falling in love is easy; it's the happily ever after that's shrouded in shadows.