Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night.

While simultaneously trying to prevent and prepare for war between the Faeries of the Night and Faeries of the Light, Queen Holly Blue is kidnapped from her Uncle Hairstreak's home by human Henry Atherton and learns she must face another, far greater enemy.

At his father's funeral, Edward Michael "Em" Goverton notices armed men have shown up, and these armed men follow him home. Em has discovered a five-hundred-year-old prophecy by Nostradamus, and these armed men work for men who are connected to that prophecy. With only a stranger named Victor and a family friend named Charlotte as allies, Em embarks on a quest to uncover a conspiracy and stop the end of the world.

Working on a highly-classified espionage project, four English teenagers go back in time to the Cold War in 1962 to prevent a global outbreak of the bubonic plague in the twenty-first century.

Contains ten original stories of the supernatural, featuring selections by Holly Black, Libba Bray, Herbie Brennan, Deborah Noyes, Marcus Sedgwick, and others.