Thomas falls asleep beneath a hawthorn tree. A kiss from the Fairy Queen awakens him and she takes him to Faery for seven years. Thomas soon discovers that he’s not the first man―or the first Thomas―the queen has taken for a lover and apprentice. He finds himself dangerously caught between the queen and her king, whose love is strained to the breaking point. Will Thomas survive long enough to return to the human world? With bonus story "Snow for Flowers."
Leslie Claire Walker’s fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Chiaroscuro, Electric Velocipede, GUD Magazine, and DAW Books anthologies.
Thomas falls asleep beneath a hawthorn tree. A kiss from the Fairy Queen awakens him and she takes him to Faery for seven years. Thomas soon discovers that he’s not the first man―or the first Thomas―the queen has taken for a lover and apprentice. He finds himself dangerously caught between the queen and her king, whose love is strained to the breaking point. Will Thomas survive long enough to return to the human world? With bonus story "Snow for Flowers."
Leslie Claire Walker’s fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Chiaroscuro, Electric Velocipede, GUD Magazine, and DAW Books anthologies.