She describes this collection as «rather like a lunatic cocktail party: a poisonous girl, who spends most of her undeath arguing with her ghostly sisters, a costume designer still mourning a childhood lover stolen by
faeries, a wolf who might also be a
prince, and a teenager who needs to drink herself into oblivion to keep from craving human blood.»
Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a
prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their
prince would be different from the other
faeries, the ones who made cruel bargains, lurked in the shadows of trees, and doomed tourists.