Phineas Smith continues to be cursed having a power no-one could control. Roark Lyne is his worst foe and his only hope.

The just human student at Mather’s School of Magick, Phineas Smith includes a target on his back. Born with the rare ability to tap into unlimited magick, he finds both Faerie Courts want his allegiance-and can do anything to get it. They don’t recognize he can’t levitate a feather, much less defend the Faerie Realm since it slips into civil war.

Unseelie Prince Roark Lyne, Phineas’s about Prince of Surroundings and Darkness roommate-and self-proclaimed arch nemesis-is beautiful and brave and a discomfort in the ass. Phineas can’t begin to evaluate their six years of intimate stress masquerading as mutual dislike. But Roark can be the only one in a position to help Finn tame his magick.

Trusting Roark’s mysterious motives could be foolish; not accepting his temporary protection will be deadly.

Caught in the middle of the impending war, Phineas and Roark forge an unhealthy alliance. And as the wall space between them crumble, Phineas realizes that Roark isn’t the monster he’d dreamed. But their developing intimacy threatens to expose a magic formula that could either convert the tide from the war . or ruin them both.

Contains mature themes.