Phil Hastings was a lucky man – he had money, a growing reputation as a screenwriter, a happy, loving family with three kids, and he'd just moved into the house of his dreams in rural magic. Everything was about to be altered irrevocably by a magic more real than any he dared imagine.

For with the Magic came the Bad Thing, and the Faerie, and then the cool... and the resurrection of a primordial war with a forgotten people – a war that not only the Hastings but the whole human race could lose.

Feist's skillfully crafted prose illuminates many of the darker sides of fairy stories, creating a narrative that is absorbing, thought-provoking, and thoroughly magical.