The winter solstice wasn’t just the shortest day of the year; it was the day the Fae took yet another thing from humans. A faith that yielded no rewards, prayers that met uncaring ears, a legendary history that had decayed into this disappointing reality…We gave the faeries our hopes, and for what? Silence and far-off lights that led nowhere. And now the Fae—or at least our naïve belief in them—would steal the lives of four young women.
