When her mother's body turns up along the shoreline of Lake Crescent, Emma knew nothing could stop the small town of Port Angeles from whispering. The Darling Curse was a superstition as old and deep-rooted as the secrets buried beneath its streets; secrets, Emma couldn't care less about, until her little sister goes missing in the night. 'Would you forgive me if I lost you to the faeries?' Suddenly her mom's dying words didn't sound so crazy anymore.Like a film rubbed clean from her eyes, Emma witnesses a glimpse into a world filled with fantastically terrible beings-hiding amongst us in plain sight. The Fae, who beckon her deeper into their web of riddled clues, seek to draw her closer toward the one who holds all the answers to her mom's past and her own uncertain future.