Merek knows he’s an outcast in his village. When his fingers aren’t working in his grandmother’s garden, they’re working against a twine web. When he isn’t struggling to form his thoughts into words, he’s mimicking the sounds around him. Despite his struggles, he’s determined to prove himself beyond being the “strange, mute boy”.

His plans are thrown into chaos when an attempt to save his best friend, Rowan, from a stake burning forces both of them to flee to a land Merek only knows from stories: the land of the wicked fae, Iiyamen. Despite learning of his faerie lineage, Merek is reluctant to accept this strange new reality, and it’ll take more than twine web to ground himself in this new land.