Ikwo Ntekim
Where We Go at Night
To name a thing is to see it, and no one can see the folk if they don't want to be seen.
Trixie Gerwin's hometown of Wood's Crossing is mind-numbingly dull--but she knows that a beguiling world of fae and magic lurks in the shadows. Growing up, it felt to Trixie like her Pops spent more time with them--those creatures, Mama used to say--than in their own world, with her.
When Trixie sneaks home past curfew the night of graduation, she expects Pops to give her the usual talking-to. Instead, her world is shattered: She witnesses his brutal murder in a moment so sudden, so uncanny, so inhuman, that she's powerless to stop it. The townies, willfully blind to what surrounds them, will blame wild animals. They'll call it an accident, a tragedy. They'll expect Trixie to move on.
But Trixie saw the unknowable thing that really did this. And she won't let the fae get away with it. Pulled into a war full of intrigue, deceit, and temptation, Trixie will stop at nothing in her fight for vengeance--for Pops, for Wood's Crossing. No matter what it takes.
Trixie Gerwin's hometown of Wood's Crossing is mind-numbingly dull--but she knows that a beguiling world of fae and magic lurks in the shadows. Growing up, it felt to Trixie like her Pops spent more time with them--those creatures, Mama used to say--than in their own world, with her.
When Trixie sneaks home past curfew the night of graduation, she expects Pops to give her the usual talking-to. Instead, her world is shattered: She witnesses his brutal murder in a moment so sudden, so uncanny, so inhuman, that she's powerless to stop it. The townies, willfully blind to what surrounds them, will blame wild animals. They'll call it an accident, a tragedy. They'll expect Trixie to move on.
But Trixie saw the unknowable thing that really did this. And she won't let the fae get away with it. Pulled into a war full of intrigue, deceit, and temptation, Trixie will stop at nothing in her fight for vengeance--for Pops, for Wood's Crossing. No matter what it takes.
- Fae courts and forbidden alliances: Trixie is pulled into a dangerous conflict between the rival Seelie and Unseelie courts, where the lines between friend and enemy blur, and every alliance comes with a hidden cost.
- Slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance: The tension between Trixie and faerie warrior Lariel builds chapter by chapter through mistrust, stolen glances, and reluctant acts of protection--the pull is undeniable long before either admits it.
- Chosen one with a cursed legacy: Trixie carries a rare Second Sight and discovers she is the latest in a bloodline supernaturally bound to the fae through a dark ancestral bargain, making her both powerful and a target.
- Mortal girl in an immortal world: Trixie, a Black teen from small-town South Carolina, is thrust into a glittering, treacherous faerie realm where time bends, glamours deceive, and her humanity is both her greatest vulnerability and greatest weapon.