Elfland

Freda Warrington

Tom Doherty Associates, Aug 18, 2009 - Fiction - 464 pages

Elfland is an intimate, sensual novel of people—both human and Aetherial—caught between duty and desire. It’s a story of families, and of Rose Fox, a woman born to magic but tormented by her place in her adopted world.

Led by Auberon Fox, a group of Aetherials—call them the Fair Folk, if you will—live among us, indistinguishable from humans. Every seven years, on the Night of the Summer Stars, Lawrence Wilder, the Gatekeeper, throws open all gates to the Other World. But this time, something has gone wrong. Wilder has sealed the gates, warning of a great danger lurking in the realm beyond them. The Aetherial community is outraged. What will become of them, deprived of the home realm from which their essential life force flows?

Rose Fox and Sam Wilder are drawn to the lands beyond the gates, even as their families feud over Lawrence’s refusal to do his duty. Struggling with their own too-human urges, they discover hidden truths that draw them together in a forbidden alliance. Only by breaching the dreaded gates and daring the danger beyond can they confront that which they fear most— their otherness—and claim their birthright.

What people are saying

Review: Elfland (Aetherial Tales #1)

User Review  - Branwen - Goodreads

Atherials (elves/faeries/gods, what have you) have been living among us as humans for a long long time. They are beautiful and mysterious creatures. Rosie Fox, along with her two brothers and parents ...

Review: Elfland (Aetherial Tales #1)

User Review  - Kelly - Goodreads

Cross Elizabeth Hand with Fire and Hemlock, and you might end up with something like Freda Warrington's Elfland. This is the kind of big, sweeping modern faerie tale that you don't see often on the ...

About the author

FREDA WARRINGTON was born and lives in Leicester, England. She has written both fantasy and vampire novels, including her most recent work, The Jewelfire Trilogy, and a historical fantasy based on the life of Richard III, The Court of the Midnight King. Elfland is her first novel to be published in the United States.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Elfland; Volume 1 of Aetherial Tales, Freda Warrington
• Author: Freda Warrington
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, 2009
• ISBN: 0765318695, 9780765318695
• Length: 464 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / General