Librarian Cassie Lewis finds her world turned upside down when she agrees to testify against her former shady landlord and he puts a hit on her in revenge. Tarian Brangwen, a Fae, no longer wishes to be Queen Mab's Champion and, in anger, the queen has exiled her from Faerie.
Cassie flees west into the mist-shrouded borderlands that lie between England and Wales and finds a safe haven in the sleepy hillside village of Bourn's Edge. There she meets Tarian, who makes a living painting fanciful landscapes and lives on the edge of Bourn Forest, enjoying her new life.
Their worlds come together as both their pasts catch up to them. They have to fight both earthly and magical forces before they can settle into a life together in Bourn's Edge.
2011 Goldie Award
Winner
Best Speculative Fiction
Rainbow Awards
Winner
Best Lesbian Sci-fi/Fantasy
Best Lesbian Novel/Book
Mindancer Press
224 pp. ● 5.5×8.5
$13.95 (pb) ● $8.99 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-960373-27-4 (pb)
FICTION – Contemporary Fantasy
FICTION – Lesbian
Barbara Davies was born in Birmingham, England, twenty minutes after her twin sister. She grew up in the Midlands, managed to scrape a BA from York University, worked in computing in Surrey, then moved to Gloucestershire where she’s now a writer and a book reviewer for Starburst. Barbara published her first short story in 1994. Since then, more than forty of her stories have appeared in various genre magazines, including Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Khimairal Ink, Neo-Opsis, and nanobison, and in the anthologies Ideomancer Unbound, Crossings, and F/SF Volume 1. The readers of Kimota gave one of her stories their 1999 Best Story Award.