Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

by Heather Fawcett

“Wendell is Folk. He is the monarch of a court in the south of Ireland which we scholars call Silva Lupi. He was overthrown by his stepmother, who has named herself queen and is now attempting to have him assassinated.”

Doors in the mortal realm generally connect two places. Most scholars assume that faerie doors are no different—but why must this be the case? The Folk are not bound by mortal laws in other respects. A nexus is a door that connects more than two places. In that sense, they are less like this office door and more like the door of a ship, which moves about and can open onto any number of locations.”

“Fortunately, I had made a little powder from the tip, which I had in my pocket before you came in.”

“You—” “Yes,” I said. “I put it in the wine.