100 years ago mortal earth merged with the realm of Fairy in an event called the Sundering; in a small town in this new world where mortal earth and Fairy overlap someone is torturing and killing young women. The police don't have any good leads so they turn to Allie McCarthy, occult bookstore owner, to help them understand the ritual behind the murders. Allie wants to help but solving murders isn't her forte - old, rare books are what she knows best. Unfortunately for her it seems that a book might be at the center of it all, and she is the key to catching someone who definitely doesn't want to be caught. Things get complicated as Allie finds herself caught between the police - human and elven - and her friends, looking for a book she isn't sure exists, and trying to put the pieces together as quickly as she can. Add in romance, an out-of-control magical gift, two strangers willing to do anything to find the same book, and dark magic that might destroy both worlds and Allie's in way over her head.

Occult bookstore owner Allie McCarthy is having a difficult time getting over the lingering effects of helping the police catch a serial killer. Beset at work by curious tourists who aren't spending money and at home by panic attacks, all Allie wants is to put the events of the previous month behind her so that her life in the Bordertown of Ashwood can return to normal. But it's going to take more than some sage and four thieves vinegar to clear out the nasty energy that seems to be hanging around. Things may not be as neatly tied up as Allie, the police, and the Elven Guard think they are, even with the serial killer dead. A young woman has been reported missing and the Elven Guard ask Allie to help them investigate. She has her hands full with a mystery of her own, a love life that's a disaster on two fronts, and a business that needs resuscitation, and the last thing she wants to do is get involved in another dangerous situation. Common sense says no, but dealing with elves is a tricky thing and before she knows it Allie is much further into the investigation than she ever intended and in far more danger than any realizes.

There is far more going on in the small town of Ashwood than anyone realizes, and Allie McCarthy, like the town itself, is caught between mortal earth and Fairy, with treachery on both sides. Allie is struggling to pick up the pieces as the police investigation into a series of ritual killings contniues to wreak havoc in her life. She has lost one friend to a serial killer and seen another shot trying to protect her as the people behind the rituals work to get her out of the way. Meanwhile her own empathic gift - which may be the key to stopping the killings - is controlling her more than she controls it. In seeking training for her gift Allie may be forced to accept that defining good and evil isn't as simple as she wants it to be. Facing betrayal at the deepest level and with her own life hanging in the balance, this time Allie has to be sure that the conspiracies are rooted out and stopped, once and for all. No matter what the cost.

Can a curse be laid and effect a family through the generations because of a single action? Someone has come to Ashwood, a town stuck between mortal earth and Fairy, because they believe their family is cursed - and the only way to remove it is to get to the person who set the spell. Unfortunately the person they are hunting can't help them remove a curse he doesn't believe even exists. Allie McCarthy, occult book store owner and witch, has another puzzle on her hands; it isn't a cult bent on ritual murder this time but something more complicated. Just as her life is finally starting to settlle down and she's finding peace things hit a major bump in the road as someone she loves becomes the target of a mysterious stalker who seems to want the impossible. Can she and her friends find the person behind their sudden mysterious bad luck before things get really dangerous? Or is it already too late to stop the magic that's been set loose?

Allie McCarthy is a bookshop owner living in a town caught between mortal earth and Fairy. Her life had been plunged into chaos the previous spring when she helped the police and Elven Guard uncover a coven intent on completing a series of rituals. The coven was murdering girls with mixed fairy ancestry, using magic from a dark grimoire that had belonged to Allie's grandmother, and she had paid a high price to stop them. She thought that was all behind her though. The coven had been captured, her grandmother's grimoire destroyed, and the Dark Court elves who had allied with one of the coven members had disappeared. Yet all is not what it seems and some dangers from the past were never truly gone, only hidden. Now those hidden enemies have found an opportunity, and the Dark Court is back in Allie's life with a vengeance kidnapping her into Fairy to force her to tell them what she knows about the grimoire that was destroyed. The people closest to her are doing everything they can to find her, but this time if Allie wants to be saved she is going to have to save herself. If she can.