An ancient power quietly dies, and the world begins to shift. A Pixie lies bleeding in a mountain stream, her healing crystal dark for the first time in a thousand years. The man who finds her will abandon his job, his house, and the modern world to carry her home across the Cascades. He will wait beside a cocoon through the season’s first snow to learn what she chooses to become.

A Sylph keeps a promise to a dying man. It leads her through a funeral, into a den of outlaw bikers, and up to the gates of a prison, where the loneliest heart she has ever touched is waiting for a miracle.

A recluse who spent ten years chasing myths on the internet opens his door to find the myths knocking. A protector takes her revenge. A mother says farewell. A shy little Pixie stows away in the treetops, watching it all while gathering her courage.

And at the heart of it all, in a sanctuary hidden beneath Glacier Peak, family gathers. Old friends. New mates. One generation passing the torch to the next. With the Guardian Network gone, what protects them now is each other.

Her name is Vala. Her story begins with a single act of kindness. Where it ends will change two worlds.