Elly is shopping for herself, but she touches a cute object, ends up in a magical realm wearing very magical... uh... clothes, and has to find the winter king to free herself if he is willing to let her go. Elly is a modern woman. She pays her bills, has her job, hobbies, friends, and family. She is on the lookout for an after-holiday present for herself, which is when things go wrong. She touches the figurine and finds herself whisked away to the realm of Underhill with her body wrapped in bright ribbons and an order to get herself home via the winter king. Puck is tired of the elders of the fey hoarding their magic in Underhill while the lesser fey have met and mingled with humans for generations. He makes a deal with the six remaining kings to find them matches and sets about his plan to find ladies for the fussiest fey in history. The idea of modern women seems to suit them, so modern women it will be. The winter king is surprised when one of the wolves leads him to a nearly unclothed woman in the snow. He is shocked when she doesn’t recoil at his cool touch. The moment she returns his advances, he stops thinking. It is time to live in the moment.

Orla was lured to Underhill via a candy stand, lands wrapped in ribbon, and given an out via the agreement of the autumn king. She bribes him with candy, and things do not go to plan. At a winter fair, Orla is lured by the scent of fudge to a stand that seems separated from the traffic around it. After some polite chatting, she snags her mitten on a gingerbread house, goes to disentangle it... and finds herself sitting, wearing a ribbon for clothing, and spectral instructions on how to get home are glittering on the wall. Looking for the autumn king is a strange thing to do in heels and a fetish outfit, but when she finds him, asking him to send her home is first and foremost on her mind. He agrees, but he is going to take his time. He does not say why. Their evening devolves into chess, fudge, and foreplay. Suddenly, Orla thinks that three days might not be enough. Back home with no memory of her time in Underhill, she finds herself crying at strange times. It isn’t until she goes to arrange a donation to the museum she works for that she remembers what she’s missing.

Petal gets through life one day at a time when a strange magical transport to the world of the fey sets her on a crash course with eternal spring. Limping after a devastating injury, Petal gets a delivery and opens it to find a box with a ceramic gingerbread house in it. One light touch and she was wearing a weird outfit inside the house she had touched, and instructions glowed on the wall. She had to find the king of spring, and he could send her home, so she took her cane and hobbled down the path that was marked with warm air and green leaves. The man that she found was stunning, but his focus was on the moment. She got along with him, he helped her recover from her injury, and then, they fell together to explore the present. When the woman in his arms disappeared, Damek was furious and tried to take his revenge, but as he listened to Puck, he woke up to the situation that his lover had been in. For the first time in centuries, Damek had to think about more than just the immediacy of his desires, and the alteration was going to take some time to sink in. It was a good thing that time in Underhill passed at a different rate to that of the mortal world. Damek had to study.

Audra has been working for the family business forever. Having it sold to an elf partnership is surprising, but she has met one of them before. Audra is working on spring prep for the greenhouse her family owns when one of the boxes contained something that was definitely not seeds. The ceramic sends her to another dimension in less time than it takes to blink an eye. She is told to find the storm king to send her home, and she does, but he won’t. She asks him to return her to the mortal realm, and he offers her a tour of Underhill instead. The tour brings them closer, and with neither of them agreeing to a time to part, Puck has to step in and draw a curtain over their frolics. Back at home, Audra learns that not only have her parents put the greenhouse up for sale, it is a done deal. Her life begins to spin away from her, and the only thing that is steady is the hand of one of the purchasers who seems terribly familiar. When her memories come back in a rush, she is mortified and fascinated. He is offering her an extensive future and her hopes and dreams. Should she jump at the chance or risk more than her heart in the embrace of the storm?