<p><b>''Forget dark academia: give me instead this kind of winter-sunshined, sharp-tongued and footnoted academia, full of field trips and grumpy romance'' </b>Freya Marske, author of<i> A Marvellous Light</i><br><br><b>An intrepid professor must uncover faerie secrets in the delightful and heart-warming second instalment of the <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling Emily Wilde series.</b><br><br>Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore, and has catalogued many secrets of the Hidden Folk in her encyclopaedia with her infuriatingly charming fellow scholar, Wendell Bambleby, by her side.<br><br>But Bambleby is more than just a brilliant and unbearably handsome scholar. He''s an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother, in search of a door back to his realm. <br><br>By lucky happenstance, Emily''s new project, a map of the realms of faerie, will take them on an adventure to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambleby''s realm,