Melissa Marr was voted in high school the “most likely to end up in jail”. Instead she went to graduate school worked in a bar became a teacher and did a lot of writing. Wicked Lovely is her first novel.
<p><span style="font-size: 1rem;">In this prequel to the international bestselling Wicked Lovely series (over a million copies sold) the Faery Courts collide a century before the mortals in Wicked Lovely are born. </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Thelma Foy a jeweler with the Second Sight in iron-bedecked 1890s New Orleans wasn’t expecting to be caught in a faery conflict. Tam can see through the glamours faeries wear to hide themselves from mortals but if her secret were revealed the fey would steal her eyes her life or her freedom. So Tam doesn’t respond when they trail thorn-crusted fingertips through her hair at the French Market or when the Dark King sings along with her in the bayou. But when the Dark King Irial rescues her Tam must confront everything she thought she knew about faeries men and love. </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Too soon New Orleans is filling with faeries who are looking for her and Irial is the only one who can keep her safe. Unbeknownst to Tam she is the prize in a centuries-old fight between Summer Court and Winter Court. To protect her Irial must risk a war he can’t win – or surrender the first mortal woman he’s loved.</span></p>
