Highland Magic of the Fairy Market

Lyra Bennett has locked her heart behind a quiet home, a dependable career, and a rule against reckless hope, so a solitary trip through the Scottish Highlands is meant only to give her mist, old castles, and room to breathe.

Beside a rain-swept road a woman in green appears and vanishes, leaving a silver thistle pin warm against Lyra’s palm and a warning never to bargain with the Fair Folk after midnight.

A wrong turn through the mist delivers her into the Fairy Market, a hidden realm that rises for one enchanted night every hundred years, where stalls glow with lanterns and trade forgotten laughter, bottled courage, and wishes bright as starlight.

Once the gates close, no mortal may leave before dawn, and the Fair Folk smell the dormant magic in her blood—an inheritance tied to an ancient accord between the Highlands and Faerie that the market’s beautiful queen intends to use to bind Lyra there forever.

Her only hope is Rowan, a disgraced fae prince whose charm, dangerous smile, and concealed past come with a troubling interest in the thistle pin she wears.

As they race through a garden where emotions bloom as flowers, a midnight ceilidh that lays every dancer’s secret open, and a maze of bargains that can steal a name, a memory, or a dream, Lyra finds herself craving more than the safety she once prized.

Rowan carries bargains of his own, and the hours before dawn force her to choose between the guarded heart she has always trusted and a wish that might free the market, restore its forgotten magic, and open a future they could both claim.