Jude settles for simply participating in the tournament, an act that earns her the ire of Cardan and his friends, who tried to dissuade her from entering. Jude wants to use an upcoming tournament to offer her candidacy for knighthood, but Madoc doesn’t think she’s ready. The King of Faerie announces that he is stepping down from the throne and will choose one of his children to succeed him. One of Cardan’s friends Locke, however, begins paying special attention to Jude. Their schoolmates, led by Cardan, bully them repeatedly. Jude feels that becoming a knight will give her the protection she has always lacked she and Taryn were humans growing up in the magical land, and they are looked down upon for their mortality. Jude has grown up with Madoc teaching her combat and military strategy, and she wants to be a knight in one of the courts.

In Faerie, Jude and Taryn are tormented by one of the King’s six children-the arrogant prince Cardan-and his group of friends. Jude and Taryn attend lessons with their peers from the families of the faerie King’s court. Madoc takes a second wife, Oriana, with whom he has a son, Oak. Jude grows up in Faerie and the story resumes when she is 17. He takes all three girls back to Faerie with him.

Now, as Madoc has come to find her in her suburban home, he kills her and her husband to avenge the dishonor they brought him years ago. The girls’ mother, who was once married to Madoc, ran away from Faerie with another man, the twins’ father. Their mother has a tense encounter with Madoc, who claims not only that he is a faerie from a magical land called Faerie, but also that he is Vivi’s father. Jude and her identical twin sister Taryn are seven, and their older sister Vivi is nine, when a mysterious man named Madoc shows up at the door of their house in the American suburbs. This guide cites the 2018 Hachette Book Group hardcover edition.

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