For the first time, portraits can make them feel…
Isobel is a prodigy with a gift for painting. Her clients are fairies—immortal beings who can’t bake bread or pick up a pen to write without turning to dust. They’re used to enjoying the fruits of human Art, which is inaccessible to them—so the portraits painted by this artist are highly valued here.
But when the girl gains a client of royal blood, she makes a terrible mistake: she paints weakness in the prince’s eyes—something that, in his lands, can cost a life.
Now, accompanied by him, Isobel must stand trial for something she didn’t do.
But what if her Art really is a threat that creatures haven’t faced for all the millennia of their lives?