The Darkening

Life in a magical realm is anything but normal for reluctant princess, Willow Farrandale, but she is doing her best to adjust. She enjoys spending time with her new friends, especially her sworn knight Brand - despite his infuriatingly old-fashioned rules about "proper courtship."

The peace does not last long, however, as a misstep in Clarion dooms Willow to play another faerie Game. Willow and Brand are thrown into the Goblin King's Gauntlet, where a host of bloodthirsty creatures are on ...