This isn’t the first time we’ve tried closing the door. I can only face her dark, tender stare without an answer. “What if it doesn’t work?” Briar asks, and she’s still talk¬ing to Jin, but her eyes meet mine when I look her way. They’re still knocking out the logis¬tics of what we’re about to do, making last-minute decisions on the sigils they’re going to use to close the door to Faery. Their conversation is both about me and not, and I only manage to half follow it. “I was just thinking that, yeah, and I was also thinking-”

He doesn’t say anything, but there’s no need to.īriar and Jin, walking side by side a few feet ahead, fill the silence for us, their yellow and purple energies batting back and forth at each other as they do. Two weeks after my boyfriend dies in my arms, we go to the woods in the middle of the night to close a portal to an¬other world.Įmyr-my boyfriend, now less dead and more of a king- brushes his knuckles against the back of my hand as we weave through honey locusts, moonlight making puppets of our shadows. Edgmon, used with permission from Inkyard Press/HarperCollins. THE WITCH KING was his debut.Įxcerpted from THE FAE KEEPER by H.E. has never once gotten enough sleep and probably isn’t going to anytime soon. His stories imagine Indigenous worlds and center queer kids saving each other. Born and raised in the rural south, he currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with his eccentric little family. EDGMON (he/they) is a questionable influence, a dog person, and an author of books both irreverent and radicalizing. And this may be more than the two of them can fix.Īs Wyatt struggles to learn control of his magic and balance his own needs with the needs of a kingdom, he must finally decide on the future he wants-before he loses the future he and Emyr are building… But when they uncover the hidden truth about the witches’ real place in fae society, it becomes clear the problems run much deeper than anyone knew. Emyr and Wyatt are hunting Derek and Clarke themselves after having abolished the corrupt Guard, and are trying to convince the other kingdoms to follow their lead. Two weeks after the door to Faery closed once more, Asalin is still in turmoil. In the heart-stopping sequel to The Witch King, Wyatt and Emyr attempt to rebuild Asalin despite unexpected new enemies within their kingdom.

The fae keeper