Forget everything you think you know about faeries. Creatures full of magic and whimsy? Not in the Oakenwyld. Not anymore. Deep inside the great Oak lies a dying faery realm bursting with secrets. Long ago, the faeries mysteriously lost their magic, and now their very survival is at stake. Knife is determined to find out how to get her people's magic back. But when she befriends the human boy Paul, her quest becomes more dangerous than she realizes. R.

J. Anderson weaves a tale of lost magic, high adventure, and surprising friendship in which the fate of a realm rests on the shoulders of one brave young faery.