by Susan Krinard
Many years ago as a side effect of something her father did Eden Fleming married a man whom she discovered wasn't really a man, but a fane, an elemental, a woodland spirit known as Lord Herne. She flees and marries another but returns to Hartsmere, her family home, after her new husband dies. Whe...
Hern is a Lord of the Fane, a race ancient before the coming of Man. For a thousand years he has guarded his forest realm on the Lakeland estate of Hartsmere. He longs to return to the Blessed Land of his own people, but he must bring with him a half-mortal heir, whose humanity will strengthen the w...