Powerful enchantments. Danger lurking in every corner. Can this trio of unlikely friends serve the fae crown without triggering another disaster?
Seventeen-year-old Jessamine is heartbroken over a sudden tragedy. But her grief is short-lived when the throne delivers the flower-magic-wielding half-human an ultimatum: become a spy or face banishment.
House arrest has left Laec itching with boredom. But still keeping his eyes and ears open for his Seelie queen, he's suspicious of the winter kingdom leaving their lands for the first time in forty years and arriving at court... where dire predictions of darkness loom.
Çifta longs to command her own future. But the heiress's reprieve from an alliance with a ruthless royal feels temporary, as she fears revealing the truth of his cruel treatment will lead to war.
As their paths converge at the famed Midwinter Festival, the three schemers uncover threads of a twisted plot. And with life, limb, and love on the line, they realize joining forces once again is the only hope of stopping an encroaching evil.
Will their secret maneuvers bring them back into sovereign favor or leave them out in the treacherous cold?
A Memory of Nightshade is the lush second book in The Scented Court YA epic fantasy series. If you like suspenseful adventures, witty dialogue, and forbidden romance, then you'll adore A.L. Knorr's faerie realm.