Ironside

It is now Roiben's coronation day in the kingdom of Faerie. Pixie Kaye feels uneasy in the dark Unseelie Court, but she is certain of one thing: she loves Roiben. However, once Kaye confesses to Roiben while intoxicated with faerie wine, he sets her on an almost insurmountable mission. Until Kaye locates the one thing she is certain doesn't exist—a faerie with the ability to lie—she will be unable to see or communicate with Roiben.

Kaye, feeling lost and unworthy, chooses to inform her mother that she is really a shifter, abandoned to replace the human daughter who was abducted many years ago. Kaye returns to the realm of Faerie in order to locate her human counterpart and bring her back to Ironside, much to her mother's dismay and fear. However, upon returning to the faerie courts, Kaye discovers that she is only a pawn in the Seelie Court's queen Silarial's games. Silarial is determined to take Roiben's kingdom, and she will stop at nothing to do it, even using Kaye. Can a pixie outwit a queen in this duel of cunning and weapons?

Holly Black creates a hazardous world where pleasure and agony mix and nothing is as it seems in her captivating story, which is at once frighteningly enchanted and painfully real.