Effy Sayre, the only female architecture student at her university, believes in fairy tales and has been haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood. When a contest is announced to redesign the estate of her favorite late author, Emrys Myrddin, she sees it as her destiny. At the musty Hiraeth Manor, she encounters Preston Héloury, a literature scholar determined to expose Myrddin as a fraud. As the two rivals investigate clues about Myrddin’s legacy, they face dark forces, both magical and mortal, in a gothic mystery that has been described as an “achingly atmospheric and beautifully sharp” dark academic fantasy