The fae are after me because I’m the Shadow. But what the hell is that supposed to mean?

Black Pine Facility for Wayward Juveniles. The asylum. I always thought it was a place for broken kids like me and it is, I guess. But that's not all.

It's also a place where the fae put troublesome humans to forget about them.

After I was blamed for my sister's death, I was trapped inside for more than six years. My doctors — my captors — told me that I'd be free on my next birthday. In a couple of weeks, I would walk out of Black Pine forever. 

I believed them, too.

The fae can't lie, but that doesn't mean they tell the truth. On my 21st birthday, I would be leaving the asylum...because the Fae Queen has decided it's time I was finally brought to Faerie to face her.

Yeah. That’s, uh, that’s gonna be a no.

You see, I spent the last six years pretending that the fae don't exist. That all changes when a Dark Fae helps me break out of the asylum. Nine. The Shadow Man who was my loyal guardian and only friend when I was a little girl. Now that he’s back in my life for the first time in years, he swears he only wants to help me.

Right.

With a return to the asylum impossible, my only goal is to escape the fae chasing me. Even Nine. Especially Nine. And that’s way harder than I thought it would be. He’s…he’s different than the Shadow Man I remember from my childhood. The cold, emotionless fae is showing me a whole new side to him — and this sexy, devoted fae is helping me discover exactly who I am.

Abandonment issues, right? I have them in spades.  So while I’m trying to escape the fae, I’m also trying to outrun my growing feelings for Nine.

If only I could get the hang of the whole walking through shadows thing....

*Beware the cliff. Since this is part two of a trilogy, each book leads into the next, with the full resolution of Riley's story coming in the third and final book, Touch.

Shadow is the second book in a planned trilogy featuring a wary  independent half-fae heroine, the Dark Fae who has shadowed her her entire life, and her quest to learn about who she really is and why the powerful Fae Queen wants her dead.