<b><b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series.</b><br></b><br><b>“A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.”—Sangu Mandanna, author of <i>The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches</i></b><br><br>Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at <i>people</i>. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people.<br><br>So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befr