num_pages: 463
description: Rosie Fox is a daughter of the Aetherials an ancient race from the Spiralthe innermost realm of the Otherworldwho lives secretly among us. Yet she and her kind are bereft of their origins because on Earth in a beautiful village named Cloudcroft the Great Gates between worlds stand sealed.Her parents Auberon and Jessica are the warm heart of Cloudcroft and of Rosies loving family. But on the hill lives the mysterious aloof Lawrence Wilder Gatekeeper to the inner realms of Elfland. Tortured by private demons he is beset by trouble on all sides: his wife has vanished and his sons Jon and Sam are bitter and damaged. Lawrence is duty bound to throw open the Gates every seven years for the Night of the Summer Stars a ritual granting young Aetherials their heritage their elders vital reconnection to their source. Lawrence however is haunted by fears of an ever-growing menace within the Spiral. When he stubbornly bars the Gates he defies tradition and enrages the Aetherial community. What will become of them deprived of the realm from which flows their essential life force? Is Lawrence protecting themor betraying them?Growing up amid this turmoil Rosie and her brothers along with Sam and Jon Wilder are heedless of the peril lurking beyond the Gates. They know only that their elders have denied them their birthright harboring dark secrets in a conspiracy of silence.When Sam is imprisoned for an all-too-human crime age-old wounds sunder the two familiesyet Rosie is drawn into his web even as she fears the passions awoken in her by the dangerous Wilder clan. Torn between duty and desire between worlds Rosie unwittingly precipitates a tragedy that compels her to journey into the Otherworld where unknown terrors await. Accompanied by the one man most perilous to her life she must learn hard lessons about life and love in order to understand her Aetherial natureand her role in the terrifying conflict to come.
language: English
title: Elfland
publisher: Tor Books