Fearing for her family’s safety, she lies and says the first name that pops into her head: Clare Beddor, a girl from her village. Rhysand toys with them and then promises nothing. Tamlin begs Rhysand not to tell Amarantha about Feyre. The next day, Rhysand, High Lord of the Night Court and Amarantha’s lover, arrives unexpectedly at the estate and discovers Feyre. They sneak off to a field where they kiss. Feyre overhears conversations about the woman and later learns she is Amarantha, one of the Hybern king’s commanders and now the self-proclaimed queen of Prythian.Īt the summer solstice celebration, Feyre gets drunk on faerie wine and dances while Tamlin plays the fiddle. A faerie from the Summer Court is found near death with his wings ripped off by a mysterious woman that no one will tell Feyre about. Afterward, Feyre and Tamlin are more trusting of each other.Īs time goes on at the estate, strange and brutal warnings are left for Tamlin and Lucien to find. Before the Suriel can tell Feyre more, other faerie creatures attack her, and she only survives when Tamlin appears to help her fight. One hundred years ago, the king dispatched his own Fae to Prythian to infiltrate the seven High Courts, but 50 years ago, one of his commanders disobeyed him. He resents the peace treaty other ruling High Fae made with humans.

She learns that a powerful king rules the neighboring faerie kingdom of Hybern. When Feyre learns of a Suriel, a faerie who is compelled to tell the truth once captured, she captures it. It becomes clear that both Tamlin and Lucien are keeping information about the blight from her. Tamlin tries to befriend her by teaching her to read and giving her space and supplies to paint, but she does not like or trust him. As the person who provided food for her family, she also worries they will starve without her, but Tamlin assures her that he has provided for them. Feyre is told that the masks are magically attached and cannot be removed due to a magical blight in Prythian.įeyre worries that the blight will spread past the wall and eventually affect her family in the human realm. When Tamlin shape-shifts back to Fae, he wears a mask, as do all the servants and Tamlin’s best friend, Lucien. Feyre expects to be imprisoned for murder, but to her surprise, she is allowed to live freely on the estate. The shape-shifting Fae is called Tamlin, High Lord of Spring Court, who lives in a large estate in perpetual spring. Rather than be killed, Feyre decides to go with the wolf to Prythian, the Fae kingdom in the north and on the other side of a wall between their realms.

Soon, another Fae in wolf form comes to Feyre’s house and demands payment, a life for a life, as required by the treaty between human and Fae realms. Fueled by her hatred of the Fae, she shoots and kills the wolf with an ash arrow and takes the deer home. Based on the wolf’s size, Feyre suspects it is a Fae in animal form. Deep in the woods she sees a deer, but before she can kill it, an enormous wolf attacks the deer. With their meat and bread now gone, Feyre, her father and two older sisters face starvation. Feyre is a 19-year-old hunter who is desperate to find food for her family.

The mask of the rose novel