Odessa Sawyer

As the price for Lucy's freedom, Soli is charged by the Faerie Queen with journeying to the Black Lake and retrieving the Dark Crown.

Lucy and Soli are reunited and learn the secrets of Faerieground, the Queen, and their own identities.

Although Soledad and Lucy are returning to the human world to see their families, their work in the Faerieground is not finished--war threatens and Soli is a faerie princess, so her future lies there.

Having fled the dreadful blitz in London and landed in sunny Santa Fe, New Mexico, Beatrice Agatha Sims has learned to appreciate a radically different culture and landscape. Her world is rocked again with news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. First, she must contend with losing her American host, the sensible Clem - a public health nurse called to Washington to train other nurses. Then the 13-year-old girl must draw on her own experience of...

Just when Soli begins to accept that she will be with the Crows for life, she finds proof that the Crows have been plotting against Roseland. With Faerieground in a state of chaos, will Lucy and Kheelan come through before Soli converts to a Crow herself?

At the Crow Palace, Soli tries to save her friend. But does she have the strength?

Back in Faerieground, Soli must lead her kingdom to safety. But Lucy becomes ill, and her wellbeing is her best friend's first priority, even if it means sacrificing the crown.

Both Lucy and Calandra are ill, and Soli is the only one who may be able to save them.

Soli has waited a long time to be rescued from the Crows, and she is beginning to give up on her faerie kingdom and her friends. She doesn't know if the mysterious letters she's receiving really are from Kheelan, Lucy has been out of touch, and Soli wonders if there is any friendship she can rely on in Faerieground.