Reed-Crowned Bride

Ashling O'Shea isn't like the other girls who are content with their simple country lives. When faced with an arranged marriage, she decides she'd rather die, and when she offers herself to the local monster, that's exactly what she plans to do. Impressed by her courage, the monster, an each-uisce named Kyran, offers her an alternative solution: become his bride instead.

Before she can earn the right to join the realm of the fae, Kyran gives her seven trials, each more difficult than the last. They will test her cleverness, her bravery, and ultimately, her willingness to put her humanity behind her. If she can successfully complete them, he will transform her into one of his own kind: an each-uisce, a water horse feared by man and faerie alike.

Pitted against leanan sidhe, red caps, bean-sidhe, and even other humans, Ashling begins to lose sight of her true place in the world. Does she have the strength to follow the enigmatic fae who has captured her heart? Or will she choose her mortal groom-to-be, and the security he offers? Her wedding day is fast approaching, and Ashling finds herself with an important choice to make: how much of her humanity is she willing to lose to control her own fate?