Queens of Mist and Madness (Fae Isles, #4)

by Lisette Marshall

‘Young woman no one’s ever heard of before, showing up in the heart of the Crimson Court to blind the Mother, only to subsequently vanish from the surface of the earth again for weeks. Reemerging at the Golden Court a little later, damaging the empire’s army badly with an unknown poison no one has ever heard of. Vanishing for months again, then turning up at a nymph isle to destroy an entire fleet singlehandedly—’ ‘I had a little help,’ I said modestly. Rosalind gave a chuckle. ‘And if I substitute “half a fleet”, clearly all my questions have been answered at once.’ I snorted a laugh and picked up a biscuit, wondering just how much I could reasonably be expected to tell a woman whose existence I had not known of until two days ago. ‘Most of it sounds more dramatic than it was in the moment, honestly. The core of the story is I’m trying to kill the Mother, and I think that does answer most of the questions in one way or another.’