In the rain-soaked logging town of Dayton, Washington, no one believes in fairies anymore—until the night the veil tears wide open and the Wild Hunt rides straight down Main Street, dragging screaming souls into the dark.

Riley Voss, a twenty-eight-year-old tattoo artist with fae blood she never asked for, is marked by an ancient geas: the moment her ink touches human skin, it awakens something older than sin. When a single, forbidden tattoo rips a hole between worlds, the Eight Fae Kingdoms spill their war into our own—and every court wants Riley’s flesh for their own purposes.

Some want to crown her. Some want to skin her alive and wear her power like a second hide. And one exiled prince of the Unseelie Court wants her heart… literally, still beating, served on a silver platter beneath the bone-white moon.

Now Riley has seven days to cross the borderlands between Dayton and the Fae Realm, steal back the piece of her soul that was bargained away before she was born, and close the rift—before the things of the flesh that hunt her decide humanity itself is nothing more than prey wearing skin.

Because in the Eight Kingdoms, desire is a blade, love is a curse, and flesh is the only currency that never lies.

You think you know fairy tales. You’ve never bled in one.