Sing us a song of the forest, of the Wood King who rules there, and the tithe he demands? No matter how far Emeline Lark runs, the song of the forest reaches her, luring her away from her dreams of the stage and back to her small town and its superstitions. But every superstition is rooted in truth, and when her grandfather goes missing Emeline will be forced to return to Edgewood and the forest beyond. There, even Hawthorne Fell, a brooding tithe collector, cannot dissuade her from her path ? a path that will lead her into the court of the fabled Wood King himself ? and into a bargain with the deadliest price.