Livxene Antonette Aldarde has lived a life carefully constructed by tradition and expectation. Married for eight years to her college sweetheart in an arranged union blessed by both families, her marriage appears enviably perfect-stable, respectable, untouched by scandal. She learned early how to be a good wife: composed, loyal, unquestioning. That illusion fractures the night she discovers her husband is having an affair. The betrayal ignites something sharp and unfamiliar in Livxene-not grief, but resolve. She refuses to be the woman who is quietly replaced. Determined to "fix" what was broken, she sets her sights on the other woman, believing that if the threat is removed, her marriage will return to what it once was. But when she comes face to face with Madeline Gwyneth Quizon-the woman she believes is threatening her life's foundation-Livxene's certainty begins to crumble.

Melissa Crawford thinks she's just a regular teenage girl. She goes to school. She has friends, boy problems, homework...you know, the typical teenage angst. But she couldn't be more wrong, for Melissa Crawford is not a mortal. Her adoptive mortal mother refused to give her up and hired a witch to erase the enchanting Faery child's memory, not realizing that things aren't that simple. You see, when she was a little girl, Melissa promised herself forever to her Leannan Sidhe (mate), a Fae Prince, and a promise to Fae is sacred. When the Fae Prince comes back to claim what's his, nothing will get in his way. "Mortals are so arrogant. So utterly narcissistic to think that they are the only intelligence in this world, to believe their realm is the only realm, their way is the only way. "Many of you believe us fairies only exist in little kids' fairy tales. We are so much more than that. We exist, living in the Realm just a blink away from yours. A few wrong turns in the park or the forest and you're there. We sometimes walk among you, and you're not even aware of it. Believe me, we exist. Across the globe, your kind calls us and our realm by different names...but as William Shakespeare once said- a rose by any other name..."