When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the forest, a monstrous creature comes to avenge him and, in exchange for the life taken, takes her to a dangerous land full of magic, which she knows about only from legends. Feyre learns that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin - one of the deadly immortal faeries who once ruled their world. While Feyre lives at his estate, her feelings for Tamlin turn from icy enmity to fiery passion, burning through every lie and warning she was told about the dangerous and beautiful world of faerie. But an ancient, terrible shadow hovers over the lands of faerie, and Feyre must find a way to stop it... or doom Tamlin and his world.