Misfortunes are an unavoidable part of life, but what if they are the result of something more than just bad luck and poor decisions? When Michael and Patrick become unlikely friends after meeting in a boys' reformatory, they had no idea that the tragedies that had plagued their families for generations aren't so wholly unrelated. When Avianca, a Fynian princess, materializes in front of Michael to uphold the faeries’ end of an ancient deal struck between his ancestor and one of her people; neither Michael nor Patrick's lives will ever be the same again. After all, meeting your soul-mate doesn't guarantee you'll live happily ever after. A Fable’s Origin: Fynian Encounter is the prequel to The Fynian Fable series.