Eloise doesn't like to be the centre of attention but on the day of her seventeenth birthday, while she's hanging out with her friends, a handsome young man dressed like a pirate kneels down in front of her and vows to be her champion. Then later that night, the young man, Marcus, turns into a wolfhound to save her life. But Marcus doesn't save Eloise from being sent to Fae, a world in which a despotic ruler threatens both faery and human realms, and soon Eloise is involved in a bitter battle to save her aunt, herself and a society in danger...