Aibhlinn Ultana Smith is your average everyday New Yorker. She enjoys a good cup of coffee, window shopping, and works hard at her job as a CPS worker. Completely normal, except she's not human. She is a changeling, a fay child who was left with a human family to wreak havoc. Now's she's a grown woman who constantly flits back and forth between the human and the fay's world. One day when she was checking one of the children she looks after she discovers he and several others have been affected by a mysterious illness that doesn't seem to have come from the human world. Making up her mind she meanders into the Boston troll market where she gets wrapped up in the beginnings of a war between the human and fay if the Elven prince has his way. Now she must not only find out how to deal with this new sickness but try and stop an impending war. What's a fay girl to do?
Prologue
Stories were my lifeblood. To me everything held a story and I wanted to hear them all. I would beg my parents every spare moment we had to hear a story woven from the words that fell from their mouths. Whether it was about Cinderella's escape from a cruel family or a Thousand and One Night Stories, or a hundred years worth of tales from a tree we often sat under in the park to the past belonging to a random seashell washed up on shore I had found. I wanted to hear them all. But my favorite stories by far are the ones about normal people who ended up being not so normal after all. People like me.
And now that I am old and graying I believe it is time to tell my own story. One filled with magic, elven princes, sword fights, and a wicked evil that threatened all. So let's start from the very beginning with a catchphrase that every human knows,
"Once upon a time….."