A Court of Thorns and Roses Series Summary

A Court of Thorns and Roses Series by Sarah J. Maas
This contains spoilers for all five books in this series. These summaries contain adult content, and is intended for readers 18+

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ACOTAR:
– Feyre shoots Andras in wolf form and sells the pelt to the mercenary
– Beast Tamlin comes to collect Feyre, offering her death or to come with him to Prythian. Papa Archeron tells Feyre to leave and never come back. 
– Feyre arrives in the Spring Court and meets Tamlin in Fae form, Lucien and Alis. 
– Feyre goes on patrol with Lucien and encounters the bogge 
– Feyre is tricked by a puca, disguised as her father, and Tamlin stops her from following it 
– Feyre snares the Suriel, “stay with the High Lord” and she and Tamlin fight the naga – creating some truce between them
– Tamlin admits to glamouring her family; they don’t know that she was taken by Fae anymore (Nesta was impervious to the glamour) 
– Feyre asks for paint 
– Tamlin and Lucien take her to the pool of starlight 
– Calanmai, being rescued by Rhysand, and the infamous bite
– Tamlin removes Feyre’s glamour and she sees everything for how it really is
– Summer Solstice celebration, Faerie Wine, Fiddle Solo
– Rhysand visits the manor
– Tamlin and Feyre have sex, he tells her he loves her, and then sends her home to her family’s new estate 
– Feyre tells her family everything and then returns to Prythian to find the manor empty 
– Alis explains the history with Amarantha and the curse. Feyre takes the short-cut tunnel under the mountain. 
– Amarantha makes the deal with Feyre to complete three tasks. 
– Rhysand’s first lint flick
– Trial One: Middengard Wyrm
– Rhysand and Feyre strike the deal for healing in exchange for 1 week of every month in the Night Court. Her tattoo appears on her left arm. 
– Trail Two: Written logic puzzle with levers *first hint of Feyre and Rhysand having a connection
– Feyre hears beautiful music that sounds like a dream, where the one she loves is
– Feyre and Tamlin almost get caught trying to do the deed 
– Trial Three: stab the three Fae, the third being Tamlin with his stone heart. Feyre realizes that he can’t die and wins the trial.
– Amarantha claims that the freedom of the Spring Court was only bargained for with solving the riddle and she kills Feyre – but only seconds after Feyre solves the riddle
– The curse breaks, Tamlin kills Amarantha and the High Lords restore Feyre into a High Fae 
– Rhysand leaves, after being shocked by something. Feyre and Tamlin go back to the Spring Court 

ACOMAF:
– 1 month post UTM, Tamlin proposes 
*Begins 3 Months post UTM*
– Feyre is having nightmares and Tamlin isn’t allowing her freedoms because of the “image” they need to maintain 
-The Wedding: Rhysand rescues her and she spends a week learning to read and shield. She learns of the possible conflict with Hybern. 
– The Tithe: Feyre gives the water wraith her jewelry, the ensuing fight with Tamlin results in him blowing up his entire study 
– Lucien attempts to convince Tamlin to allow Feyre to train her powers. The next day, Tamlin locks her in the house and she has a panic attack, leading to her encasing herself in darkness. Mor rescues her and takes her to Rhysand. Feyre begs to come with him, and so he takes her to Velaris. 
– Feyre meets the Inner Circle (IC) and accepts Rhysand’s proposal to help them with Hybern. 
– Feyre and Rhysand visit the Bone Carver on the Prison island. He tells them Hybern is going to resurrect Jurian using the Cauldron, and it can be used to break the Wall. He tells them how to nullify it, like calls to like – only something made can unmake it. Seek the Book of Bindings 
– The Weaver: Feyre retrieves Rhysand’s ring to test her ability to sense magical signatures of the High Lords due to the kernels of power inside her. 
– Rhys, Cass, Az and Feyre visit her sisters in the human realm to try and negotiate a meeting place for the human Queens. Cass and Nesta square off. The attor grabs Feyre but Az take it back to the Court of Nightmares. 
– Feyre trains with Cassian (physical) and Rhysand (magical)
– Feyre, Rhys and Amren go to the Summer Court, steal the Book of Breathings, and run. They receive the blood rubies in return. 
– The Mortal Queen respond and they meet, and ask for proof that Rhysand is not an evil Fae. They visit the Court of Nightmares so they can retrieve the Veritas orb. Famous throne sitting scene. 
– Starfall, smiles and soul juice 
– They go to the Illyrian Camp after finding out there’s a trace on Rhys’s magic. Lucien shows up and tries to take Feyre but she transforms into a Night Court beast and tells him to leave. Rhys uses his magic to help protect her.
– They bed down at a tavern and Rhys offers her distraction with his fingers. 
– Next day, he is shot down from the sky and Feyre rescues him, summons the Suriel, and learns they are mates. Feyre escapes to the cabin for alone time.
– Rhysand comes to the cabin and explains everything about his life and how Feyre fit into it leading up to the present: How and when he knew they were mates. Everything he has done to protect her. 
– “Then eat.”
– They return to the Mortal Realm because the mortal queens agreed to meet again. They show them Velaris with the Veritas and still decide not to ally and give the Book. But one secretly leaves it behind. 
– Velaris is ransacked by Hybern: Feyre Cursebreaker, Defender of the Rainbow 
– Amren cracks the code and they go to Hybern but it was a trap. Jurian is resurrected. Az is stabbed. Cass’ wings are shredded. Tamlin traded lands for armies to get Feyre back. Elain and Nesta are Made and Lucien declares that Elain is his mate. 
– Feyre cleaves Hybern’s wards in a burst of light. She pretends that she was just freed from some terrible mind control cast on her by Rhysand. She goes to Tamlin, begging him to protect her. She asks the King to sever her bond with Rhys. Rhysand objects, but the King breaks the bond. 
– Mor winnows to Lucien, grabs Nesta and Elain, showing Rhys that Feyre broke the wards, and they all disappear back to the Night Court.
– Feyre leaves with Tamlin
– Rhysand tells Mor and Amren that the bond lives between them and that Feyre is High Lady of the Night Court, now poised in the Summer Court to take them down.

ACOWAR:
– Jurian, Prince Dagdan and Princess Brannagh come to the Spring Court
– Feyre’s Destruction of the Spring Court: turning everyone against Tamlin and Ianthe, stealing Ianthe’s thunder at Summer Solstice, killing Dagdan and Brannagh, giving Ianthe what she deserves, and leaving with Lucien.
– Lucien and Feyre battle his brothers in Winter. Cassian and Az come to retrieve them.
– Rhys and Feyre reunite. She sees her sisters. Nesta is as prickly as ever, but Elain is quite broken. Feyre is being taught to fly by Az.
– Feyre and Cassian visit the Bone Carver. He wants Feyre to bring him the Ouroboros mirror in exchange for fighting in the war.
– Rhysand sends invites for a High Lord meeting.
– Lucien leaves to try and find Vassa – the missing, cursed human Queen
– They make a deal with Keir to use his Darkbringer legion: Eris will ally with him and he will have restricted access to Velaris. In exchange, the Night Court will support Eris’ rise to power.
– The Hybern Ravens attack in the library and Feyre drags Nesta down to Byraxis, where she makes a bargain.
– Az figures out that Elain is a Seer.
– Summer Court is attacked at Adriata. Rhys takes the Illyrian legion and they fight Hybern. They move the High Lord meeting up.
– At the meeting: Tamlin is a brat. Az strangles Eris, Beron is a bitch. Helion comes to their private rooms. Feyre realizes that he is Lucien’s father. The Wall is taken down by Hybern.
– The crew goes to the human lands to try and convince Elain’s fiancé to allow humans into their stronghold. Jurian is there and reveals that he’s been a double agent the whole time. He warns them of an attack coming to Summer. Elain’s fiance, Graysen rejects her.
– They battle at the southern border of Summer and then the eastern. Feyre seeks the Suriel for information. He tells her where Amren needs to look in the Book of Breathings. Ianthe shows up and kills the Suriel but Feyre locks her in the Weaver’s cottage. Helion takes her back to camp.
– Elain is snatched by Hybern. Feyre shape-shifts into Ianthe and she and Az rescue Elain with help from Tamlin and Jurian from within.
– Hybern changes tactics. Prythian winnows humans out of their realm into Summer Court. Feyre retrieves the Ouroboros and makes the deal with the Carver
– The Final Battle: Rhysand revels he made a deal with the Weaver, too. Carver and Weaver are killed, Bryaxis disappears. Drakon and Miryam arrive. Feyre’s father arrives with Lucien and Vassa. Feyre gets teathered to the Cauldron and sees everything happening because Amren tricked her. The King of Hybern kills Papa Archeron. Cassian and Nesta prepare to die together. Elain stabs the King in the neck, Nesta finishes him off. Amren is unleashed and kills everyone left, which breaks the Cauldron. Rhysand helps Feyre repair it, but he gives it all and dies. Feyre demands the High Lords to restore him, they do and Rhys drags Amren back too. Feyre begins negotiations for a new Treaty and promises to try and help Vassa with her curse.
– Rhys and Feyre make a bargain that they will die together

ACOFAS:
* It has now been nearly one year since Rhysand rescued Feyre from her wedding *
– Rhysand and Cassian are dealing with growing discontent in the Illyrian camps – many are angry about the losses in the Hybern War. It is specifically mentioned that Kallon from the Ironcrest clan may cause issues.
– Cassian meets Emerie, who is running her father’s general store (at Windhaven) because he died in the war.
– Rhys, Feyre and Mor meet with Eris and Keir at the Hewn City – Eris warns them that Beron is trying to take advantage of Tamlin’s unprotected borders.
– We get a little insight into what happened with Mor and Eris. Eris didn’t help Mor when she was dumped on his land because if he had, she would have been forced to stay with him and he knew she didn’t want that.
– Rhys visits Tamlin and realizes that the Spring Court might as well be dead.
– Feyre tracks down Nesta. Everyone is worried about her. She’s completely withdrawn. Feyre begs her to come to Solstice.
– Feyre begins painting at the abandoned art gallery in the Rainbow and befriends Ressina.
– Lucien tells Feyre that he’s been spending his time with Jurian and Vassa – The Band of Misfits
– Cass, Az and Rhys have their annual snowball fight. Az wins.
– Feyre turns 21
– They celebrate Solstice, and even Nesta comes. Notable gifts: Lucien gifts Elain enchanted gloves that she doesn’t like. Elain gifts Az headache powder. Feyre gifts Rhys the painting of her beast-self.
– Cassian begs Nesta to talk to him and she refuses. He chucks the present he bought her in the Sidra.
– Feyre tells Rhys she wants to try for kids.
– Mor visits her estate, Athelwood and sees a mysterious shadow there that her powers tell her to avoid.
– Feyre is given the abandoned gallery by the family of its previous owner. One month later, Feyre has her grand opening.

ACOSF:
*9 months after ACOFAS*
– Nesta gets an intervention. She either trains with Cassian, works in the library, and lives in the House of Wind – or she will be sent to live in the human lands. 
– Cassian meets with the Band of Exiles. Vassa says that Briallyn is probably aligned with Koschei (the death-lord that owns her, also Bone Carver’s brother). Eris tells Cassian (alone) that Beron has pledged to help Briallyn with her cause. 
– Nesta meets Emerie in Windhaven and Gwyn at the library 
– Nesta and Cassian strike their bargain— that she will trail for one hour and in exchange, Cassian will owe her a favor. An 8 pointed star tattoo appears on their spines.
– Nesta puts up the signup sheet in the Library for the priestesses to join her in training. 
– Az finds out that Koschei and Briallyn are looking for the Dread Trove. Feyre tells everyone she’s pregnant 
– Gwyn and then Emerie join the training and soon more females do too. 
– Nesta’s nightmare bathes her in silver flames. Rhysand looks into her mind and says that her power is pure death. 
– Rhysand tells Cass and Az that the baby has wings and Feyre is in danger because she cannot shift her body while pregnant. 
– Nesta scries for the trove and turns into Death. Cassian kisses her back to herself. The mask is in the Bog of Oorid, in the Middle. They go and find Eris’ missing soldiers. Nesta retrieves the Mask. 
– Helion comes to help ward the Mask but he is disturbed by it. 
– Nesta Makes the dagger, short sword and great sword. When Cass tells her, she freaks out, runs to Amren’s and ends up telling Feyre that her baby is killing her. Cassian takes her to the mountains and she breaks down. 
– Nesta sees the Harp in the Prison while listening to Gwyn sing. Rhys says that the Prison might have been an 8th court. Cass wonders if the Prison was built to mask the Harp’s presence. They go, get the Harp, and kill Lanthys. 
– Solstice: Nesta dances with Eris. Cassian and Nesta agree that they are each other’s. 
– Gwyn, Emerie and Nesta pass the Blood Rite Qualifier 
-On Starfall, Nesta conquers the stairs and Amren tells her that she Made the HOW. 
– Cass and Nesta fight over them being mates and Nesta cashes in the bargain-Cass must leave her alone for one week or until she seeks him out. 
– Nesta, Gwyn and Emerie are stollen into the Blood Rite. Eris is taken by Briallyn and Cass and Az are forced to rescue him. 
– Nesta defends the Pass of Enalius and Emerie and Gwyn scale Ramiel and win. Cassian shows up, under the Crown’s thrall to kill her. Dawn comes and Nesta Unmakes Briallyn. 
– Nesta bargains with the Cauldron to save Feyre and Nyx. Rhysand gives her the HOW as a mating gift.  

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Chapters 1-5
– Feyre and her family have lived at the border (two days from Prythian) for 8 years. 
– Stories of travelers reporting villages decimated, seemingly by fae, have become commonplace
– Feyre is the sole provider for her family of four: her, her father and her two sisters (Elain and Nesta). 
– She laments how she fantasizes about her sisters being married off so that any extra coin can be used on comfort things, like paint. 
– Feyre’s family was once wealthy
– Isaac Hale: the boy that Feyre has trysts with for the last two years 
– Feyre sees a doe, but then a pony-sized wolf appears
– Ash wood is poisonous to Fae, it halts their healing abilities 
– Feyre shoots the wolf and the world seems to swirl around her. She is scared that the wolf could be Fae, as rumors suggest, but it doesn’t shape-shift upon death. 
– She takes the hide of the wolf and the remains of the deer and heads home.
– When Feyre returns home, we learn that her father’s leg was ruined by debt collectors as punishment and he hasn’t worked since. Nesta and Elain are pampered, educated women who don’t offer Feyre help. If it weren’t for Feyre, who is uneducated but highly skilled, they would all die. 
– Feyre’s mother died 11 years ago. She was cold and callous to her children. She made Feyre promise on her deathbed to “stay together, and look after them.”
– Thomas Mandray (the woodcutter’s son) is interested in marrying Nesta. Feyre tells her that he’s no good and her father insists that Feyre should allow Nesta to hold onto hope of a better world. Feyre: “There is no such thing.” 
– The next day, the sisters go to town to sell the hides. 
– They run into the Children of the Blessed, Nesta argues with one 
– Feyre sells the wolf pelt to a mercenary (*black eyes, with hints of brown glimmering in the shadows) 
– “One of the High Fae could turn your bones to dust from a hundred yards away.” 
– Golden, wolfish, feline creature bursts into their house. Big as a horse with curled, elk-like horns protruding from his head. Green eyes flecked with amber. 
– The beast demands to know who killed the wolf and Feyre confesses 
– Feyre muses that she and Nesta are two sides of the same coin 
– The beast demands that Feyre either be slaughtered or give her life to Prythian by coming with him through the wall, as stated by the Treaty as punishment for killing a Fae, unprovoked. 
– Feyre’s dad begs her to go to a Prythian, and tells her to never come back. 
– Feyre mounts the horse the beast brought and they head North
– Prythian is governed by seven High Lords, who are High Fae
– The beast magically secures Feyre to the horse and puts her into a magical slumber for the two days it takes to get to Prythian 

Chapters 6-10
– Feyre arrives in the Spring Court and she thinks to run, but quickly realizes that she isn’t nearly strong enough for that 
– She heads inside to a banquet, but remembers the warnings about eating Fae food 
– The beast turns into Tamlin and soon Lucien joins them. Lucien is mad about the wolf – Andras – being murdered. 
– Feyre refuses to eat, so Alis takes her to her room. They hear Lucien speaking with Tamlin; he says that everything is hopeless if it hinges on Feyre and they should just intervene. 
– Feyre refuses to wear the dress picked out for her so Alis finds her pants and a tunic. She warns Feyre to keep her mouth shut and ears open; that her senses will betray her in Prythian. 
– Feyre joins Tamlin and Lucien back at the dinner table where Tamlin attempts to learn more about her. He also reveals that her family is being taken care of now that he’s taken their main source of income. 
– Tamlin is especially interested in her love life but she admits she has no one she loves. 
– The next day, Tamlin intercedes when she goes to take a walk and explains that Prythian has been “sick” for 50 years. That there is a magical blight that has affected his magic and bound the mask to his face. 
– As Feyre strolls the gardens, she feels like she’s being watched but is called to lunch before she can investigate 
– Lucien and Tamlin ask her about her life at dinner that night and she reveals that her mother is dead and she’s been taking care of her family. 
– The next day, she decides she’s going to win over Lucien. Tamlin offers to take her on a tour and she declines. She wonders why he even bothers. 
– Lucien invites Feyre on a hunt. He tells her that he knows her plan to schmooze him, and he can’t help her. Feyre asks about the curse that keeps them masked and Lucien says that “something was sent from the shit-holes of Hell,” referring to it as “her” 
– Lucien tells Feyre only Tamlin can shape-shift and he can use magic to shift others too 
– Lucien tells Feyre about the Suriel – a being that will tell her anything if she manages to trap it 
– They are riding on the watch route when something (Bogge) appears and Lucien tells Feyre to keep her eyes ahead. If you look at it, it becomes real and can kill you. 
– When they return, Tamlin is waiting for them and Feyre remembers that she brushed him off only to then go riding with Lucien
– Tamlin is visibly angry but Lucien tells him they ran into a bogge and Tamlin leaves to hunt it. Feyre watches for his return from her bedroom window, but spies a form in the garden – who looks like her father. 

Chapters 11-15
– Feyre escapes to follow her father to freedom, but Tamlin intervenes, and she realizes she was being tricked by a morphing creature (puca) trying to lure her.
– Feyre tells Tamlin about her promise to her mother and he assures her that her family is being taken care of better than when she was with them. Feyre realizes that she is now free from the vow she made her mother. 
– Tamlin tells her he trained in his father’s war band and was never meant to be the Lord 
– For three days, Feyre joins Lucien on his patrols. Tamlin’s presence is scarce as he hunts the bogge. Lucien tells Feyre that Tamlin prefers to be alone and gets into “moods” where he broods over things, and the bogge being in his territory is upsetting to him. 
– Feyre has a nightmare about killing Andras. 
– Tamlin returns from killing the bogge, injured. Feyre takes him to the small infirmary. Tamlin realizes that Feyre cannot read or write. He asks how she learned to hunt and she says, “That’s what happens when you’re responsible for lives other than your own, isn’t it? You do what you have to do.” 
– The next day, Feyre hears Lucien and Tamlin arguing. Lucien is mad that Tamlin isn’t doing something he should – says his stone heart is awfully soft these days. 
– They see her and she tries to ask Lucien to go for a ride but he volunteers Tamlin instead. Feyre says she hates hunting and doesn’t want to. 

Tamlin: “Has anyone ever taken care of you?”

– Tamlin takes Feyre to the study, where she attempts to teach herself to read and write so she can send her family a letter. 
– She finds a mural that tells the story of Prythian.

“It began with a cauldron.”

– She sees a map with the seven courts: Spring, Autumn, Winter, Summer, Dawn, Day, Night. When she sees the night court painting, the hair on her arms rise. 
– In the center of the map there is a mountain range, “the core.” Bald of snow and life, as if the elements refused to touch it. 
– Tamlin comes in and offers to help her write a letter to her family. She refuses and walks out. 
– She goes to visit Lucien in his room to try and get info on trapping a Suriel: groves of young birch trees, freshly slaughtered chicken, and suriels hate crossing running water
– Feyre catches the Suriel: no, she cannot go home without death to her and her family, she learns that Tamlin is the High Lord of Spring, the Suriel is older than the high lords, older than the earth and does not belong to any court 
– “Stay with the High Lord, human. That’s all you can do. You will be safe. Do not interfere; do not go looking for answers after today, or you will be devoured by the shadow over Prythian. He will shield you from it, so stay close to him, and all will be righted.”
– Feyre learns of Hybern – a Fae kingdom across the sea. The King of Hybern isn’t happy with the Treaty. 100 years ago he sent his most trusted warriors to spy on the High Lords. 50 years ago, one of his commanders “The Deciever” betrayed him 
– “stay with the High Lord, and live to see everything righted.”
– They are interrupted by the naga 
– Feyre shoots and arrow to free the Suriel from his snare, and then runs. 
– She kills two but then she gets overwhelmed and beast-Tamlin comes to rescue her. 

Chapters 16-20
– Feyre cleans up and speaks with Alis. Alis tells her that High Fae children, and some others, age differently. Alis also tells her that the Suriel would have preferred a new robe. 
– At dinner, Lucien tells Feyre that Fae can lie and that Iron does nothing to them. Tamlin offers to write another letter for her, she declines. 
– Tamlin tells Feyre that 500 years ago, Fae fought alongside humans in the war, that they were friends and lovers 
– Tamlin also tells her that he altered her family’s memory to not remember that she was taken by him. He also indirectly warned them about the threat in Prythian. 
– Feyre asks for paint
– Feyre keeps having nightmares. She wakes from one to the sounds of shrieking and finds Tamlin and Lucien bringing in a screaming Fae whose wings have been hacked off by the mysterious “her” 
– The faerie dies, but Feyre stays with him through it all. Tamlin asks why she did it and she says:

“I wouldn’t want to die alone. Because I’d want someone to hold my hand until the end, and for a while after that.” 

– The next day, the three head out to a glen with a silver pool – a pool of starlight. It was Tamlin’s favorite place as a boy. 
– Feyre learns that Lucien is the youngest son of the High Lord of Autumn (7 brothers). Lucien fell in love with a non-noble faerie. Lucien was convinced she was his mate, but his father executed her. Lucien left and three of his brothers went to kill him but Lucien killed one and Tamlin killed another. Tamlin claimed him for his court and made him emissary because of how good he is with people. 
– Feyre and Tamlin swim in the starlight. 
– Feyre speaks about her father, the Prince of Merchants. He took a risk to pay off his generational debt and it fell through, which is how they ended up destitute
– On the ride back to the manor, Lucien gifts Feyre one of his jeweled knives – because she saved the Suriel and because he hesitated when he heard her scream 
– The next day, Tamlin showed her the art gallery and gave her painting supplies. 
– Weeks pass. 
– Feyre starts to realize that she’s been avoiding thinking about the mortal lands. That everyone there has likely forgotten about her, too. 
– Tamlin follows her to the rose garden his father gifted his mother as a mating present. Feyre expresses her heartbreak over how little her family cares for her. Tamlin kisses her cheek.  
– Feyre goes into the woods for some space but Tamlin follows, getting caught in a snare she set. He releases himself and reads her poems he wrote from her list of unknown words – each dirtier than the last. Feyre laughs. 
– Tamlin explains mates. Most High Fae marry, but a lucky few meet their mate; their equal, their match in every way. 
– Tamlin has two older brothers, but it became obvious he was growing into the strongest of them. Children of High Lords who develop particularly strong magic, become the heir apparents. All of his family was killed by the High Lord of a rival court.
– Calanmai is in two days – Fire Night. The ritual replenishes the magic for the next year. 
– On the way back to the manor, Tamlin suddenly tells Feyre to hide and then he and Lucien speak with the Attor; who claims that “she” isn’t very happy with Tamlin’s behavior of late 
– Calanmai comes.

“There was a string— a string tied to my gut that pulled me toward those hills, commanding me to go, to hear the faerie drums…”

– Tamlin tells her that he must participate in the Great Rite and that she must stay in her room. She does, but a voice tugs at her, whispering, go see. 
– She goes to the drums and finds a cave, where everyone is clustered. When trying to find a place to observe, she is grabbed by three faeries. They torment her and as she is falling to the ground, someone catches her. 

“‘There you are. I’ve been looking for you…’ Standing before me was the most beautiful man I’d ever seen.”

Chapters 21-25
– The man asks what she’s doing there and she does her best to lie to him. He tells her that all the monsters have been let out for the night, and he’s free to roam until sunrise. The man leaves her and then Lucien sees her. 
– Lucien grabs her and rushes her to the manor. Lucien explains that during the Great Rite magic will seize Tamlin mind, body and soul – turning him into the Hunter. His sole purpose will be to find the Maiden. The magic generated from their coupling will fertilize the earth. Lucien warns her that Tamlin will now scent her because she was there and she needs to barricade herself in her room.
– Feyre wakes and goes to find a snack. Tamlin finds her in the hall, still half crazed. He pins her to the wall and tells her he was hunting her and couldn’t find her. Then he bites her neck in dominance. She slaps him even though she’s aroused and they part ways. 
– The next day, Feyre takes Tamlin to her painting room and he tells her that he wants the painting she did of her old hunting grounds because it reminds him that she understands the burdens he carries.
– Tamlin takes her to the Willow Glen where he kisses her eyelids and opens her senses to the full Prythian experience.
– Feyre learns that she’s been glamoured this entire time, unable to see or hear any of the house staff. 
– Feyre finds a severed head in the gardens, branded with the Night Court sigil; Lucien claims it’s a sick practical joke from the High Lord of Night. 
– Summer Solstice creeps in and they have a celebration during which Feyre drinks Faerie wine against Lucien’s warnings and Tamlin plays her a fiddle solo on his knees. 
– Tamlin takes her to see the Will-o’-the-wisps and they kiss. 
– Feyre tells him that her dad was right to want her sisters to dream of a better life, she just couldn’t see it before. And as they kissed under the sunrise, she thought it was the happiest day of her life.  

Chapters 26-30
– At breakfast Lucien tells Tamlin that the blight killed a group of younglings in the Winter Court. Magic fills the air and Tamlin tells Feyre to run to the windows. Lucien pushes her against the drapes and glamours her. 
– The man from Calanmai strolls in. Feyre learns his name, Rhysand and he is High Lord of the Night Court. 
– Rhysand goads Tamlin about how he’s taking his fate laying down and Lucien calls Rhysand “Amarantha’s whore”
-Rhysand realizes there were three place settings at the table, and suddenly looks excited
– He realizes that Lucien has been glamouring her and stalks over, telling her she’d be smart to leave the Spring Court, realizing she doesn’t know the whole truth. Rhysand enters Feyre’s mind. He sees all her naughty thoughts about Tamlin – he tells Tamlin that she would have been the one for him, if it weren’t too late, and if she weren’t so stubborn.
– Tamlin begs on the floor for Rhysand to not tell Amarantha.
– Rhysand asks Feyre for her name, and she tells him she’s Clare Beddor (a friend of her sisters).
– After Rhysand leaves, Tamlin orders Feyre and Lucien to leave him, and then he rages all night, smashing furniture and roaring. 
– Tamlin comes into her room and tells her he’s sending her home. That his enemies will hunt her for the rest of her life. 
– Feyre doesn’t want to leave and asks him how long she’ll be gone. He lies and tells her not forever. Then they have sex, “give me everything.”
– The day she leaves, Lucien is angry at Tamlin for not giving her more time, and mad at Feyre for being so dense. Even still, Tamlin puts her in a carriage, tells her he loves her, and sends her home. 
– She arrives in the mortal realm at the estate that Tamlin set her family up in. 
– Nesta had “been made differently, from something harder and stronger than bone and blood.”
– Feyre has to make up stories about her time with their “aunt.” Elain tells her she wants to see the continent and invites Feyre along, saying Nesta won’t go. 
– Elain tells Feyre that Nesta tried to go after her, but her carriage broke down.
– Feyre visits their old cabin. She says that Elain looked at it with hope but she only looked at it with hatred. 
– Nesta corners Feyre and tells her that the glamour didn’t work on her and that she knows what really happened, that she went to the wall to try and help Feyre (even hired the mercenary that Feyre sold the pelt to). 
– Nesta admits that she hates Feyre for her ability to take care of them, but she hates their father more.

Chapters 31-35
– Feyre learns that Clare’s family was burned to death, and her body was never found. 
– Feyre tells Nesta the details of everything and warns her about the blight. She tells Nesta there is a better world out there and when things aren’t so bad, Feyre will find them again. 
– Nesta says she wants to see what one woman can do on her own, and will leave the estate to their father and Elain. 
– Feyre goes to the wall and finds a gate that allows her through. She makes it to Tamlin’s manor, but he and Lucien are gone 
– Alis tells her Amarantha took them to her court Under the Mountain (UTM)
– Alis reveals that Amarantha is the High Queen of Prythian. She fought in the war against humans, was Hybern’s most feared general. She had a younger sister, Clythia. Clythia fell in love with mortal warrior, Jurian. Jurian betrayed Clythia, killing her brutally and leaving the pieces for Amarantha to find. 
– When the Treaty was signed, Hybern was quiet until 100 years ago when Amarantha charmed Prythian. 49 years ago, she stuck using a potion from an unholy spell book to disable the High Lords and steal their powers, leaving them with only their basest magic. 
– She is known as The Deceiver, for trapping the seven High Lords UTM. 
– Tamlin and Amarantha’s History: Tamlin’s family aligned with Hybern in the war, and as a child, he would accompany his father to meetings and such. She grew to want him, but he never gave in. He sent Lucien to broker peace between them, and Amarantha took his eye. 
– After that she threw a ball in Tamlin’s honor, and ordered the entire Spring Court to attend. She told Tamlin the price for peace was him as her consort. He told her he’d rather marry a human than touch her after what she did to Lucien. 
– The curse: Tamlin had 49 years to break the curse by finding a human girl willing to marry him, who killed one of his men, a faerie, in unprovoked hate. The girl would have to tell him to his face that she loved him, and she had to mean it with her whole heart. To prevent beauty making a difference, the masks were secured to their faces. 
– 40 years ago the High Lords of Day, Summer and Winter were executed for open rebellion. 
– Alis tells Feyre that all she had to do was tell Tamlin that she loved him. There was only three days left of the curse and Feyre failed. 
-The King of Hybern has done nothing to stop Amarantha, but Prythian knows that the most wretched of creatures have flocked to her, and she is amassing an army of them. 
– Feyre tells Alis to take her to UTM. 
– Alis warns her that there is still a part of the curse that she’s been magically restricted from telling Feyre. Alis tells Feyre to keep her ears open and listen. 
– Feyre takes the tunnel until she is found by the attor. 
– The attor drops her at Amarantha’s throne and Feyre says she’s come to claim the one she loves – Tamlin. Tamlin says nothing. Feyre learns they tortured and killed Clare because she told Rhysand that was her name. 
– Feyre realizes that Jurian is trapped in Amarantha’s ring – his eye and finger bone. 
– Amarantha offers Feyre a deal: complete three tasks (one task every month) or answer the riddle and Tamlin is hers.
– Feyre agrees and Amarantha orders the attor to beat her unconscious.
– Feyre wakes in a cell, she can tell some time has passed as the moon phase has changed. 
– Lucien enters her cell while the guards are drunk and heals her a little bit. Then he vanishes into air. 
– Feyre is drug to the throne room where Amarantha uses Lucien as a bargaining chip to force Feyre to give her her name. 
– Amarantha tells her the riddle. 

Chapter 35-40
– Trial One: hunt the Middengard Wyrm. How Feyre wins: she realizes the worm is blind and makes herself invisible by hiding her scent with the poo-mud. She then makes a trap with bone spears she found in its lair and lures it to its death. Upon surviving, she throws a bone spear at Amarantha. One person bet she’d live (Rhysand). Her arm gets impaled on a bone and she has a shard in her arm.  
– She’s basically dying from infection when Rhysand enters her cell. He offers her to be healed in exchange for her living for two weeks of every month in the Night Court with him after the trials. 
– Rhysand tells her that Lucien was whipped by Tamlin as punishment for yelling help at her during the first trial. 
– Feyre argues him down to one week every month. She agrees.
– He binds the deal, heals her, and inks her left arm with a mark (feline eye on her palm, intricate designs up to her elbow) blue so dark it looked black.
– Lady Autumn helps her with her chore as payment for saving Lucien when Amarantha demanded her name.
– Her guards take her to a room and tell her to separate the lentils from the embers in the fireplace before the room’s occupant comes back or she’ll be dead. 
– Rhysand enters two hours later. He tells her that all the High Lords have a beast form. Rhysand partially shifts: taloned hand and feet, bat wings with claws at the apexes
– The guards come to collect her and Rhysand mind controls them into not touching her and stopping her household chores. 
– A few days after that, Cerridwen and Nuala collect Feyre from her cell. They strip her and paint her body. Rhysand comes and gets her; he tells her the paint is so that he knows if anyone besides him touches her. 
– They go to the throne room party, where he tells everyone of their bargain. He makes her drink the wine. 
– She wakes in her cell with no memory of the night before. Lucien comes to her cell and gives her his cloak. He tells her that only Rhysand touched her. 
– Feyre asks him if Tamlin is under some spell to keep him quiet. Lucien tells her he’s under no spell. 
– Night after night she gets dragged to the throne room to be Rhysand’s play thing.
– The night before trial two, Rhysand comes to collect her and she’s able to physically feel his sadness when she mentions the Night Court.
– In the throne room, Amarantha has Rhysand look into a Summer Court fae’s mind for information. Rhysand lies about what he finds and gives the fae a quick death. The High Lord of Summer looks relieved. 
– Trial Two: Solve the written logic puzzle and choose the correct lever to stop the heated spikes from impaling Feyre and Lucien. How she won: Rhysand’s mark burned her hand when she tried to choose the wrong lever. 
– When the platform starts to raise again, Rhysand speaks into her mind, telling her to not let Amarantha see her weak. His voice strengthens her all the way out of the hall. 
– She cries for hours in her cell. Rhysand comes to her cell and licks her tears away. He taunts her and when he finally leaves, she realizes that he kept her from shattering completely.

Chapters 41-45
– Feyre overhears the attor speaking with an ambassador from Hybern – the king is angsty to get on with his war and if Amarantha costs him his foothold again, she will be ruined.
– Feyre continues to spiral down into a bottomless pit of despair the closer she gets to her third trial. Then one night, lights begin to dance on her cell’s ceiling and music plays in the air. It paints a beautiful picture in Feyre’s mind, “Everything I wanted was there — the one I loved was there —“
– The day before her final trial, at the nightly throne room party, Tamlin drags her into a little room and kisses her. They start getting frisky, like they’re going to risk have sex when Rhysand steps in and tells Tamlin to get himself together and get out. 
– Rhysand scolds Feyre for her stupidly and then hears someone coming and slams his mouth to hers to make it look like all the smudged paint was from him and not Tamlin.
– Rhysand comes to her cell later that night, totally disheveled and almost broken. He explains that he’s playing along, banking on Feyre winning the trial tomorrow so that he can be free. 
– He tells her that his father killed Tamlin’s dad and his brothers and that is the reason he was targeted by Amarantha. Feyre realizes there’s much more to Rhysand than anyone thought. 
– Trial Three: As she passes the crowd, they give her the gesture of the fallen, a farewell to the honored dead. The task: stab all three faeries in the heart with ash daggers. The third faerie is Tamlin. How she wins: Feyre realizes that Amarantha set her up to fail. But then she remembers that Alis told her to use her ears; and she remembers that she’s heard people say Tamlin has a stone heart. She stabs him. Amarantha says that the instantaneous freedom only applied to Feyre solving the riddle, then attacks. 
– Feyre is dying, thinking about Amarantha and her vile reign. Then she finally understands the answer to the riddle is love, right before her spine breaks. But her saying it out loud is enough for the curse to break.
– Through Rhysand’s eyes, Feyre watches the curse break, Tamlin kill Amarantha, Tamlin scoop her dead body up, and the High Lords give their kernels of power to restore her.

Chapter 46
– Feyre wakes as High Fae. Her and Tamlin meet with others, accept their thanks, and make love. 
– Feyre wakes with a pull in her gut. She finds Rhysand on an outdoor balcony. She asks him why he helped her and he said, “I didn’t want you to fight alone. Or die alone.” He goes to leave but then he freezes in shock and stumbles when he looked back at her. She tries to ask what’s wrong, but he disappears.
– Tamlin and Feyre leave through the tunnel to Spring Court 

A Court of Mist and Fury

Part One: The House of Beasts 
*Three Months After UTM*

Chapters 1-5
– Feyre is struggling with adjusting to her new life, and the things that happened UTM
– She hasn’t heard from Rhysand since he left UTM, his deal has not been called on 
– Feyre says that Tamlin never wakes to help her when she has her nightmares or is getting sick from them. And he never lets her comfort him when he has nightmares, too.
– By saving the people of Prythian, Feyre destroyed herself 
– Feyre and Tamlin have been engaged for two months (wedding is in two weeks)
– Feyre turned 20
– Tamlin has been carefully curating Feyre’s life since UTM, claiming that her status as a symbol of peace means nothing can happen to her, and she can’t send any messages of unrest. She wears the dagger that Lucien gave her. She’s stopped painting. 
– Ianthe: The High Priestess (one of twelve), Tamlin’s childhood friend. High Priestesses rule from their altars, their children as respected as the children of the High Lords. 
– Feyre wasn’t born High Fae, she was Made. Feyre and Tamlin aren’t mates, she thinks that Ianthe and Tamlin are better matched
– Ianthe and her family didn’t suffer UTM, as they were shipped off to a Fae territory across the sea, Vallahan. Ianthe reminds Feyre that this wedding is important for everyone. That the other High Priestesses do not like Ianthe. 
– That night Tamlin comes to their room and they make love. Feyre asks what she’ll be called when they marry, if she’ll be High Lady and Tamlin says: “There is no such thing as a High Lady.”
– The next day, Lucien takes her to a nearby village. Feyre demands to know why he lied to her about being attacked by naga and he tells her Tamlin said to lie and he has to listen to Tamlin now so that order can be established. 
– Lucien warns her the Tithe is coming: twice a year at Summer and Winter solstice, each member of the Spring Court must pay their tithe. If they cannot pay, they have three days to bring money or Tamlin has the right to hunt them. 
– Lucien tells Feyre to give Tamlin time -that he is trying to endure the trauma of watching Feyre die; and Lucien knows how difficult that is since he saw the woman he loved die too
– Feyre Cursebreaker. The villagers won’t allow Feyre to help because “the debt is paid.” Lucien tells her that she’s a distraction, a reminder of what they endured under Amarantha’s reign and it’s better to stay away. Lucien says many were in horrid camps UTM, far from the nobility. 
– Feyre and Tamlin endure endless dinners and parties to introduce her to the Court. 
– Feyre struggles deeply with guilt and PTSD. People say that her and Tamlin’s HEA is a fitting end to the horrors. “A fitting end would have been me in a grave, burning in hell.”
– People ask if Feyre has heard from Rhys, when she says no: “He’s probably running scared now that Tamlin’s got his powers back.” Feyre: “Then you don’t know Rhysand very well at all.”
– The Wedding Day: Feyre starts waking down the aisle when she sees red rose petals (after she asked Ianthe to not use red). The red reminds her how broken she is, how unworthy she is of Tamlin and the happy life they have planned for her. Her insides are thrashing, warring with itself. She stops on the isle and internally begs anyone to stop it, to save her, help her. 

“Hello, Feyre darling.” 

– Feyre is worried that Rhysand is going to take her to the place Amarantha modeled UTM on, she begs Tamlin to help her stay. But Tamlin allows Rhysand to take her to the Night Court
– Rhysand takes her to his personal residence above the Court of Nightmares. He tells her he could hear her begging to be saved through their bond, and that he knows all about her PTSD, too. 
– Feyre throws her slipper and hits him in the head as he walks away. He finds her ability to do so very interesting. 
– Feyre goes to her room in the mountain home and contemplates why she was going to say no to Tamlin. She says maybe she should wait to marry him until the mating bond snaps into place, so she knows that she’s worthy of him 
– Nuala and Cerridwen come to retrieve her for breakfast. She bathes but Rhysand tugs at her through their bond to come. When she arrives, Rhysand explains the difference between the Solar Courts (adhere to laws of nature) and the Seasonal Courts (magic tied to their High Lords).
– Rhysand notices that Feyre has lost weight. He tells her that their bond is like a bridge between them because of the bargain and she sends messages to his mental shield without knowing it. 
– She asks what he wants her to do and he says for this week, she’s to learn to read and shield. 

Chapters 6-10
– Rhysand mentions that Feyre is exceptionally strong for a High Fae and speculates that when the High Lords resurrected her, some things might have passed to her too. 
– Feyre meets Mor, Rhys’ cousin and only surviving family 
– Rhysand takes her to her lesson, where he makes her read a sentence he wrote and then jumps into her head. Rhysand asks Feyre to consider what she thinks about him, if she believes that he’s the enemy like she’s been told. 
– They go to a war room where there’s a map that is hyper detailed everywhere but the Night Court. Rhysand warns Feyre that war is coming, that Hybern has been readying this whole time. Rhysand tells her he needs her help with finding things to help prevent all out war. 
– Rhysand also says that her emerging powers, her strength and speed are similar to that of an emerging High Lord’s heir. 

Feyre: “There are no High Ladies.”
Rhysand: “We’ll talk about that later too.”

– Feyre realizes that in Rhys’ house, she still has nightmares, they don’t send her into panic so deep she has to vomit
– Mor tells Rhys there was another temple attack, at Cesere and almost all priestesses were slain and the trove looted. Az and Cassian are pissed. Rhysand’s corporeal wings burst from his back, and Feyre notices how he suddenly seems complete. 
– Rhysand tells Feyre about winnowing, moving from place to place via the fabric of the world. It is a rare gift, only possessed by the strongest Fae, and the stronger you are, the further you can winnow. 
– Feyre learns of Illyrians: warrior-race clans within the Night Court
– The next morning, Rhysand takes her back to the Spring Court. Tamlin trashed the house while she was gone. She revels in their reunion, trying to drag him upstairs, but he stops her and wants to ask her questions. Feyre regales them with everything she learned while away. Tamlin dismisses the threat of Hybern and refuses to allow her to train, even when Lucien agrees they should train her. 
– One week later, the Tithe. The water wraith comes forward and tells Tamlin she has no fish to offer because there are none in the lake. He demands payment anyway. Feyre tries to plead on her behalf but Tamlin will not be swayed. Feyre follows the wraith outside and gives her jewels to pay for her tithe. The wraith says she and her sisters will not forget the kindness. 
– Tamlin yells at Feyre for giving the wraiths her jewelry and Lucien tries to step in and defend her, but Tamlin shuts him down too. Feyre accidentally slips into Lucien’s mind and she runs from the dinner table scared and pissed. 
– Feyre seeks Tamlin out later to apologize and he gives her a traveling painting kit to say sorry. They start to talk, and Feyre tells him that she can’t do this anymore, that she’s drowning and he’s holding her head underwater. Then the room explodes. Feyre has trapped herself in an air shield, and Tamlin cannot get inside. When Feyre finally breaks her shield, Tamlin stumbles to her and begs for forgiveness. For the next several days, there are less guards and Feyre leaves the estate on her own. 
– The days pass in a blur. Feyre contemplates that Tamlin is the protector she needed when she first entered Prythian, but doesn’t have the gall to ask if that’s what she still needs. 
– Rhysand comes for her again and is disturbed by her appearance. Tamlin offers him anything he wants to break the deal, and Rhysand replies that he ready has everything he wants. 

Chapters 11-13
– They land in the same house in the Night Court. Feyre realizes how much weight she’s lost. Rhysand attempts to get her spirit up, and they end up eating together. Feyre is too detached from reality to truly engage. She tells Rhysand she is declining his offer for her to work with him, because Tamlin is trying and she doesn’t want to betray him. 
– Rhysand leaves her with books while he works away all week. When he comes back, he begs Feyre to tell him how to help her. 
– Feyre returns to the Spring Court, where Tamlin is unhinged. The sentries and guards re-station the next day. Tamlin leaves for 8 days and when they return, Lucien sees her fingers grow claws. He tells her he’s going to tell Tamlin the they need to train her. She says nothing. Later that night, Feyre hears Lucien, Tamlin and Ianthe fighting. 
– The next day, Feyre sees them leaving and she begs them to take her with them. Tamlin tells her no, and she snaps. “That girl who had needed to be protected, who had craved stability and comfort… she had died Under the Mountain.”
– Tamlin magically seals Feyre inside the manor. She has a panic attack and her powers lash out, cocooning her in darkness. Her engagement ring melts off her finger. Mor appears and scoops her up, taking her to a cave that leads into another Court. Rhysand is there and then he whisks her away. 
– Feyre wakes in the Night Court. Rhysand explains why he couldn’t have come to get her. Rhysand tells her he’ll be away for the week, and Feyre asks him to take her with him. He warns her that going with him means she will be forced to keep the secret of their destination for her entire life. No one can know about The City of Starlight – Velaris. 

Part Two: The House of Wind 

Chapters 14 & 15
– Rhysand takes her to his Townhouse. He tells her that she’s the safest she can be there. Cassian, Azriel, Amren, and Mor are all banging on the door to come in, so Feyre excuses herself. 
– Nuala and Cerridwen explain to Feyre that Rhysand made many sacrifices to keep Velaris a secret, but the story is his to tell
– Rhysand takes Feyre on an hours long tour of Velaris (Palace of Thread and Jewels, Twin Squares: Palace of Bone and Salt & Palace of Hoof and Leaf, and The Rainbow)
– Rhysand gives her a little more info about the Inner Circle, Amren being something other, and that he is the most powerful High Lord in history. 
– Feyre thinks that maybe she’d be better off ending herself, and Rhysand grabs her face to tell her to never think that and she slips into his mind, seeing herself from his POV, how gaunt and lifeless she looks. 
– Daemati: those who can walk into another person’s mind; very rare
– That night they have dinner at the House of Wind. Feyre is forced to be flown there by Rhysand because it is warded against winnowing, even by High Lords. 
– Rhysand tells her that his mother was Illyrian, making him half High Fae, half Illyrian  
– They land at the House of Wind (HOW) and Rhysand and Feyre exchange thoughts for thoughts. Rhys is thinking that he never thought he’d see Velaris again, and he worries that with war coming, it’ll be a while before he has a night like this again. Feyre is thinking that Tamlin was a bandaid – that she was starved for what he was dying to give; but that they could have gotten what they needed from anyone. 

Chapters 16-20
– Feyre meets the Inner Circle 
– Amren to Feyre: “So there are two of us now… We who were born something else — and found ourselves trapped in new, strange bodies.” 
– Miryam– was also made into something new (her husband, Drakon). Amren says it’s strange how only one human has been made immortal before Feyre; and it’s happening again right when all the “ancient players are back”
– Illyrians have the killing power – and not many magical gifts beyond that. Siphons help direct the killing power in more powerful Illyrians. They are not High Fae and have rounded ears like humans. 
– Feyre learns about Cassian and Az’s childhood, how Az is a Shadowsinger, how Cassian doesn’t know his father. 
– Rhysand explains that Illyrians clip their females’ wings at first menstruation. Rhysand explains that his mother starved her body to keep from menstruating and it was the mate bond snapping in place between his parents that saved her from losing flight. 
– Misting: the ability to literally turn things to mist
– Rhysand’s mother taught him the ways of Illyrians by taking him to an Illyrian training camp at age 8. Cassian beat him bloody that first first day. Rhysand ended up inviting him into the little house where he was staying with him mom, but they continued to hate each other until Az arrived. Az couldn’t even fly when he first arrived. 
– Cassian and Az were the first bastard-born Illyrians to receive Siphons. 
– The war came and Rhys’ father saw how powerful the trio was, so he separated them in the war. This went on for seven years. 
– The Court of Nightmares vs The Court of Dreams 
– Cassian offers to teach Feyre to fight and Mor assures her that she should do whatever she wants; Feyre realizes Mor might be her first female friend. Feyre realizes that she wants to be part of this court, these people. So she accepts Rhysand’s offer to help. 
– Rhysand says that Hybern is trying to launch a war by resurrecting Jurian. 
– 3 days ago, the memorial at Sangravah was raided
– Amren tells Rhysand he needs to speak to the Bone Carver if he wants answers on resurrection, and Feyre, being something new, an immortal with a moral soul, might just entice him to answer their questions
-Rhysand flies them back to the Townhouse and tells her that their bond is a living thing, made from her desire at the time of bargaining – to not be alone 
– Rhysand tells her that he spent every ounce of power every day for years controlling the minds of Night Court citizens that Amarantha tried to get info out of. When she zapped his powers, he had to make a choice and only had power enough to protect one place. He chose Velaris. And to keep Amarantha from asking too many questions, he became her whore. 
– Feyre has a nightmare and Rhysand wakes her from it and talks her down, holds her hair while she vomits. 
– They visit the Prison (Western Isles) but Feyre cannot stomach going under the rock. They leave. The next day Amren gives Feyre an amulet she claims allowed her to exit the Prison and Feyre decides to try again. 
– Feyre learns about Az’s childhood abuse at the hands of his father’s wife and his older brothers 
– Rhysand explains that the prison is law unto itself and is largely self-governing due to an ancient spell. His blood is keyed to the gates. Perhaps was/is an 8th court. Rhysand has sentenced people there. 
– Feyre asks where Amren came from and Rhysand tells her that there are legends of rips in the world when it was forming that would allow creatures in, but also trap them here. There is no other like Amren, same as some of the creatures in the Prison, who have been looking for a way home for a very long time 
– The Bone Carver: appears to everyone differently. Carved every door in the Prison. To Feyre, he appears as a dark haired little boy with striking blue eyes. Rhysand offers the Carver the bone that ended the Middengard Wyrm. The Carver asks Feyre where she went when she died. She tells him that she heard the crack that broke her neck, and then followed a thread to Rhysand, which allowed her to see through his eyes. And when the High Lords restored her, she followed that thread back to her body. The bone carver asks her if there was a light or portal. 
– The Legend of the Cauldron: Before High Fae and Man, there was a Cauldron. It contained all magic and the world was born in it. It fell into the wrong hands and wicked things were forged from it. It could not be destroyed, or all life would end, so it was stolen and hidden. The feet were cut off in an attempt to dull its power and hidden a the temples: Cesere, Sangravah, and Itica. 
– The Carver continues to trade secrets for info. Feyre tells him that she would have killed herself after the third Fae in the third trial if it hadn’t been Tamlin. It wasn’t until Amarantha killed her that she realized she was still meant for something else, that she didn’t want to die. The Carver confirms that Hybern has the Cauldron and is making it into working order. He also says the Cauldron has the ability to break the Wall. 
– The dark maker of the Cauldron made The Book of Breathings – a spell book that helps navigate the cauldron’s powers. It was split in two as part of the Treaty, half going to the human Queens, half sent to the Summer Court. Carver tells them that only that which was Made can use the Book of Breathings. Like calls to like. Half of the Book of Breathings is in the Summer Court, protected by the Lord of Summer, half is warded in the human realm to melt unless given freely. 
– They go back to the Townhouse to tell everyone what they learned. Rhysand says that if the objects are spelled to specific High Lord’s power, Feyre should be able to act as a detector. Rhysand suggests testing her abilities by having her retrieve something his from The Weaver. 
– Rhysand also makes Feyre Emissary to the Night Court for the human realm. He needs her to use her family’s estate to meet with the human Queens. 
– Rhysand explains that the Weaver is protected and therefore off-limits to the High Lords, but Feyre’s magical signature should be the same as the object she is to retrieve, so she should go unnoticed by the Weaver. 
– “Did you enjoy the sight of me kneeling before you?”
– Feyre enters the Weaver’s cottage and feels the tug toward the object – a sapphire ring. 

Chapters 21-25
– She takes the ring and starts toward the door when the Weaver detects her. She ends up scrambling up the chimney, where she fights her panic and escapes from the roof to the trees. Feyre realizes that Rhysand was testing both her tracking abilities and her ability to overcome her fear. 
– Back at the Townhouse, Rhysand tells Feyre he’ll show her why he hates Ianthe if she can break through his mental walls. The High Priestesses have a strong foothold in Dawn, Day and Winter 
– Rhysand shows Feyre the memory: Ianthe spread naked on Rhys’ bed even though he didn’t invite her there, her trying to grab his body without his permission, his magic breaking her hand. (100 years ago)
– Feyre realizes that this is why Lucien hates her; and it breaks her heart that Rhysand was going to kill Ianthe for taking away his consent, then Amarantha happened 50 years later 
– Feyre and Mor are talking: Mor explains that her magic developed stronger than anyone in her family, including the males. She hoped this meant she wouldn’t have to suffer an arranged pairing, but she was wrong – it only made her a higher prize to win. Mor says she will not come to the human realm until the Queens are there. She mentions that Cassian is the true reason she got out of the Court of Nightmares – him and Rhys. 
– They prepare to head to the human realm. Feyre wants to fly with Az. It has been 1 year since Feyre killed the wolf. 
– Feyre goes to her family’s estate and tells Nesta and Elain everything. Nesta is angry – she doesn’t want anything to do with Feyre’s request, especially because it could jeopardize Elain’s chances of marrying a Lord’s son. Elain is the one who convinces Nesta to listen. 
– Rhysand, Cassian, Feyre, Azriel, Nesta and Elain have dinner. Nesta and Cassian head-off with each other in a battle of spite and wills. Elain and Az are the calm ones. 
– Feyre and Rhys share a room that night and Rhysand admits he’s having a hard time dealing with his anger toward Feyre’s sisters. He also asks Feyre’s birthday, and she says the Winter Solstice
– The next day, Rhysand takes her into the mortal woods and gives her a training exercise. She asks him to give her space, so he goes back to the manor. A little later, a snack appears alongside a note and a pen – Feyre and Rhys correspond via disappearing notes. Feyre doesn’t notice she’s being watched until the attor grabs her. 

Chapters 26-30
– Rhysand and Az come, and they question the attor. It says that the King of Hybern wants Feyre but doesn’t know why. Az takes the attor away. 
– Rhysand tells Feyre that she keeps forgetting to fight and goads her into fighting with him; she ends up winnowing and tackling him into the snow, much to his delight. Feyre snarls at him to never use her as bait again (like he did with the attor just now) and he apologizes 
– They leave the human realm and go back to Velaris, where Rhys leaves Feyre at the Townhouse to join Az with the attor. When he returns he shows Feyre what happened in his mind. 
– Feyre writes a letter to Tamlin: that she left of her own free will, that she is safe, and to not come looking for her, that she isn’t coming back 
– Feyre asks Rhys if they can go out that night and he says they’ll have dinner in the city. Amren comes to Feyre’s room and tells her that the handmaiden wraiths were trained by Az first. Amren also admits that the amulet she gave Feyre was just and ordinary piece of jewelry. 
– They go to a restaurant near the river. Amren drinks a goblet of blood. The others go dancing at Rita’s while Rhys and Feyre walk back to the Townhouse 
– Feyre hears the same music that was playing in her cell UTM and realizes that Rhysand was the one to send it to her. He says he did it because she was breaking. Feyre tells him she saw the Night Court when she heard the music and he says that he didn’t send her those images. 
– The next day they flirt via disappearing notes again and Rhys tells her he’d like for her to lick his wounds. She has a nightmare that night, but manages to sleep through the night. 
– Feyre trains with Cassian while Az and Rhys spar shirtless. Cass tells her they get their tattoos when they’re initiated as Illyrian Warriors. Cassian asks Feyre if she’s going to talk about the letter she wrote to Tamlin. Cassian’s question unlocks all of Feyre’s heavy feelings and she starts to realize that she did everything for Tamlin and their love and he never tried as hard, nor gave as much. She starts crying and burns through Cassian’s sparring pads with fire powers. She says out loud for the first time that she killed those fae and it should have been her who died. 
– Rhysand tells her she’ll always live with those feelings, but she can learn to hone them into action. He tells her there is different kind of darkness and it’s up to the weilder to decide its intention. 

Chapters 31-35
– Rhysand hears from the Summer Court and he, Feyre and Amren are planning to go. Cassian has been banned from Summer for eternity because he wrecked a building
– Rhys winnows them to Adriata — the castle-city. They meet with High Lord Tarquin, Princess of Adriata Cressida, and Varian, Prince of Adriata Cressida’s younger brother and captain of the guard. They have refreshments together and Feyre has to assure them that she isn’t a “stollen bride” since the law dictates that if she were, they’d have to send her back to Tamlin. Rhysand reminds them that they are all alive because of Feyre and he will not hear them disrespecting her 
– In their rooms, Rhysand corners Feyre and tells her to do whatever she needs to get the book – she asks if that includes fucking Tarquin and Rhys says yes, whatever. The tension between them is crazy. And then Feyre squirts water at a candle. 
– They join Tarquin and his court on a pleasure barge and Feyre gets to know Tarquin better – he wants to create equality among the High and Lesser Fae. Feyre muses is would be easy to love him. 
– Rhysand spends the time cozied up with Cressida and Feyre realizes how lonely and unhappy she really is. 
– They leave for the night, but Rhys and Cressida are absent. Feyre is a little melancholy because she thought he was just as lonely as she. 
– The next day, Tarquin takes Feyre on a tour and she pointedly ignores Rhysand. They look through the entire trove and she doesn’t find the Book of Breathings. When Feyre returns to her room, Rhysand is on her bed. They argue about their jealousies and Feyre realizes he really is jealous. Rhysand tells her that he’s mad she smiled at Tarquin. He says that he’s jealous that Tarquin will never know what it’s like to have to dream of a better world, because his Court offers him the privilege of living a less dangerous life. 

Feyre: “To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.”

Rhys: “To the stars who listen — and the dreams that are answered.”

– Feyre wanders the city looking for the book but finally sees that here’s a little building that submerges with the rising tide. 
– At dinner Feyre asks about the temple and everyone gets suspicious. She enters Tarquin’s mind and alters his thoughts just a little to remove the doubt he now harbors toward her. Back in their rooms, Feyre, Rhys and Amren make a plan. 

Chapters 36-40
– They go to the temple – Rhysand stays as lookout while Feyre and Amren go in; Feyre transforms into Tarquin himself to open the door. 
– They find the book, which speaks to Feyre in her head, asking who she is. She tells it she is Tarquin and it tells her she’s a liar and the door to the temple slams shut. 
– Amren breaks the door open but then the ocean floods in and they’re fighting the waves. They get sucked under, certain death looming, until a group of Water-Wraiths come and save them — paying the debt they owed from the Tithe in Spring Court 
– Rhysand winnows them to the Townhouse. Amren says the book is written in Leshon Hakodesh, the Holy Tongue; tongue of mighty beings who feared the cauldron’s power and made the Book to combat it — they vanished 
– They wonder what Jurian’s role is in all of this; they mention Myriam (the other made woman) being his lover 
– Rhysand receives Blood Rubies from Summer — marking him, Amren and Feyre public enemy number one. There is now a price on their heads. Rhysand regrets how everything happened. Feyre tries to distract him by asking if she can guy lingerie with his credit. Az interrupts their flirting, but as Feyre leaves, Rhys sends her mental images of what would have happened if they’d gone
– Feyre wakes to night pouring though her door. She follows the bond to Rhysand’s room where he’s having a nightmare. She wakes him from it and he admits he has them as often as she does. 
– Next day Feyre visits Amren’s apartment. Amren tells Feyre that Varian sent her a ruby necklace from the trove to soften the blow of the blood feud 
– Weeks go by where Feyre trains and the tension between her and Rhysand ramps up. 
– Finally the Mortal Queen respond and they head to the Archeron Estate. 5/6 mortal queens arrive (the 6th is “sick”). The Queens winnow there — a supposed gift from Fae kind. 
– The Queens will not give them the book, and will not listen to them. Mor steps forward with her “gift of truth,” and tells them that peace is possible between humans and Fae, that Miryam and Drakon have existed for 500 years in peace and secrecy. 
– The Queens demand proof that Rhysand is not the terror he’s rumored to be. Rysand tells them he will give them proof. They leave and Elain tells the IC that she hopes the Queens burn in hell. 

 Chapter 41-45
– The Black Land: 500 years ago, pre-war, there was a Fae kingdom in the southern continent. No humans were born free there, all were slaves. The Black Land was ruled by a vicious Queen. Miryam was born there, half fae, but was deemed a slave. The Queen gave Miryam to her betrothed, a foreign Fae Prince, Drakon. He was horrified and freed Miryam. Miryam was afraid the Queen would find her, so she ran until she was found my Jurian. She joined his army as a rebel healer, and was Jurian’s lover. Three years later, she treated Drakon, who had joined with the humans after realizing his betrothed was a monster. Drakon had been looking for Miryam. Miryam and Drakon fell in love. Everyone believed that Miryam and Drakon perished trying to liberate the people of the Black Land, Amarantha told Jurian as much. But they live in secrecy. 
– Feyre asks how exactly they’re going to appease the Queen’s request for proof. Rhysand says he’s going to show them Velaris, and to do so, they need to visit the Court of Nightmares. 
– Rhysand wants the Veritas, an orb belonging to Mor’s family. It is full of the truth magic Mor possesses. Rhysand warns Feyre that he will have to wear the face of the High Lord when they go to the Court of Nightmares. 
– Mor’s story: she was auctioned off to Eris, the eldest son of Beron, High Lord of Autumn. Mor begged Rhysand to stop the arrangement, but his father would do nothing. So he took her to an Illyrian camp for a few days, where she saw Cassian. She had Cassian take her virginity, making her valueless in the arrangement. It was a disaster. In the end, her family dumped her on the Autumn border with a note nailed to her, saying she was Eris’ problem. Az found her a day later. 
– They fly to the mountain. Rhys is visibly worried about Feyre. “Amren and Mor told me that the span of an Illyrian male’s wings say a lot about the size of … other parts… They also said Ariel’s wings are the biggest.” Feyre touches Rhys’ wings as they fly, and he warns her that they are sensitive. “I’ve never allowed anyone to see or touch my wings during sex. It makes you vulnerable in a way that I’m not…comfortable with.”
– Suddenly, ash arrows fly through the air toward them. They try to track the attackers but come up empty. Not even Az’s shadows were able to give info. 
– Feyre and Mor enter the Court. They are intercepted by Mor’s father, Keir, demanding to know where Rhysand is. Then they feel him. He enters exactly like you’d expect the most powerful High Lord in history to do so. 
– He takes Feyre to the throne and perches her on his lap. They play the part of High Lord and his pet, arousing one another and irritating / distracting Keir in the process. 
– Rhysand gives her leave to go to Cassian and as she passes Keir, he tells her she’ll get what’s coming to her. Night explodes through the room and Rhysand has Keir on his knees, commanding him to apologize. Rhysand breaks Keir’s arm and hands. 
– When they leave, Rhysand winnows himself and Feyre to a lake. Rhysand appologizes for Feyre having to witness him like that and she snaps—telling him not to treat her like Tamlin did. They fight. He tells her he is the perpetual villain and everything will be taken out on, and taken from him, and Tamlin will get to keep her for being the golden prince. 
– Feyre asks what about what she wants and he challenges her to say what it is she does want. She can’t. When they winnow back to the Townhouse, Feyre leaves him to speak with the IC. She goes to the garden and contemplates how she feels like she doesn’t want to hide her feelings for Rhys behind distractions and flirting anymore. She wants to really try to see where things could go if she admits to him that she wants him. 
– Rhysand avoids her the next day. She visits Amren who tells her that there’s tracking magic on Rhys so every time he uses magic or winnows, he is traced. So they are moving to an Illyrian camp after Starfall. 
– Cassian comes to pick up Feyre for Starfall. Starfall: spirits on a yearly migration to somewhere. Less and less spirits migrate each Starfall. 
– Feyre and Rhysand make up for their fight. Rhys tells Feyre that Amarantha made sure he was busy the entire night of Starfall so he couldn’t watch. They end up getting hit in the head by spirits, making them both laugh. Feyre smiles at him for the first time. 
– Rhysand admits that he wishes he hadn’t kissed her UTM, because it wasn’t the first kiss he’d been imagining for them. They dance the night away. 
– They go to the Illyrian camp. Feyre has been in the Night Court for two months. Lord Devlon leads the camp. We find out that Rhysand has ordered the camps to train the females to fight. Devlon was also the leader that allowed Rhys, Az and Cass to perform the blood rite – when no others would. 
– Rhysand makes it clear that Feyre is “his” and no one is allowed to touch her 
– Blood Rite: novice Illyrians are sent into the mountains without weapons, magic, siphons or use of their wings and must survive. 
– Rysand and Tamlin’s History: Tamlin was born when the War started, younger than Rhys. They started hanging out at functions. Rhys saw himself in Tamlin a little, the son of a power hungry High Lord surrounded by monsters. Rhys trained Tamlin here and there. Tamlin told his father where Rhys would be meeting his mom and sister, and Tam’s family went there and slaughtered them. They sent their heads down the river to the nearest Illyrian camp and kept their wings as trophies. In retaliation, Rhys and his father killed Tamlin’s brothers and father (and his mom, although Rhys’ father promised he wouldn’t). Rhys was blocking his father from Tamlin’s room when Tamlin came out and killed Rhys’ father immediately. And they were crowned High Lord simultaneously. 

Chapter 46-51
– Feyre and Rhysand take advantage of the seclusion of the camp to train in the wilderness. They go out on an overnight trip. Feyre breaks from Rhys to practice away from him and Lucien and four Spring Court soldiers come up behind her. Lucien begs her to come home to the Spring Court and tries to grab her so he can winnow away with her, but she winnows away instead and then Rhys shows up. 
– She tells Lucien she’ll never come back, that they abandoned her. 

“When you spend so long trapped in the darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”

– She transforms to have shadow talons and Illyrian wings. She tells Lucien to leave and never come back. 
-Rhysand flies them away to the tavern, which only has an attic room for them. They eat together and talk about how Rhysand would have torn the world apart to get her back if Lucien had grabbed her 
– They lay down and cuddle for warmth but Feyre tickles his wings until they’re both worked up. Rhysand gives her pleasure with his hand after she asks for a distraction. He tells her when she finally licks him, they’ll be alone so he can roar down a mountain. 
– They wake and Rhysand kind of acts like nothing happened the night before. They barely speak for the rest of the day. They start to fly back to the Illyrian camp and Rhysand tells her he needs to tell her something but before he can, he’s shot down with poisoned ash arrows. He throws Feyre through the forest so she isn’t taken too. 
– Feyre becomes rage incarnate and uses that rage to become darkness, winnowing in and out, looking for him. Feyre comes to a fork where his scent splits in two. But she wasn’t tricked because only one path also contained her smell (from them being intimate)
– Feyre finds him chained up in a cave, unconscious, full of arrows, being whipped (the chains are special blue ones that seem to incapacitate him). She winnows in and out, killing everyone. She frees him and winnows him to a cave she saw while they were training. 
– Feyre begins sawing the arrows in his wings in half to remove them. Feyre distracts him by telling him how she painted the night sky on her drawer at her family home. 
– Rhys passes out and does not wake. Feyre decides to summon the Suriel. The Suriel tells Feyre that she needs to feed him her blood, enriched with healing magic from High Lord of Dawn to counteract the bloodbane poison.
– Then he says, if she wishes to speed her mate’s healing, she should seek a pink flower as well. He tells Feyre that Rhysand knows that they are mates. 
– Feyre goes back to the cave and gives him the flower and blood. She asks him how long he’s known that they’re mates. He said he suspected it for a while, but knew for sure when Amarantha was killing her and then felt it snap into place before he left UTM (over 1/2 year ago). He wanted to tell her yesterday. He’d hoped that she’d realize, maybe when they had sex for the first time. Amren and Mor know and Cass and Az suspect. 
– Feyre is deeply betrayed and asks him to take them back to the camp immediately. They dump out at the cabin at camp and Feyre asks Mor to take her away. Mor takes her to an enchanted cabin that will take care of her. Mor says she’ll return in three days. 

Part Three: The House of Mist 

Chapter 52-55
– Once Feyre cools down, she realizes that maybe she left in haste, after she told him she’d never walk away from him — then she did it. Feyre paints all day and night. Mor returns. Mor asks her if it’s really such a bad thing to be his mate and Feyre concedes that it’s not.
– 5 days pass and Feyre paints every room. That night, there’s a pounding knock. Rhysand has arrived. 
– Feyre offers to heat up Rhys some food but he tells her if she does, it’s the symbolic way of showing she accepts the mate bond. Feyre tells him to tell her the story, their story. 
– A story of mates: Rhysand was captured during the war by Amarantha’s army. He plotted her death every day as he was tortured. The day before he was going to kill her, she and Jurian faced off. He was freed by his father and taken to recover. The end of the war happened while he was still recovering. When Amarantha came back to Prythian, only he and Tamlin mistrusted her. 
Rhysand went to the party UTM with the intention of killing Amarantha. But when he realized his power had been zapped, he used the last of it to wipe Velaris from everyone’s mind, cast a protection around Velaris (that would fail if his friends left Velaris), and mind spoke to them to tell them what was happening. He decided that night that he’d seduce her and make it so good, she’d come back for more.
When Tamlin was cursed, his enemy became his potential salvation. After a decade of being whatever she wanted, he resigned himself to never seeing his friends or Velaris again. He gave up. 
Then, 3 year ago, he began having dreams. Flashes of life through someone else’s eyes. Feyre’s life. He pushed a thought back one day, the night sky — which she painted on her dresser. 
1 year ago, the dreams became more vivid when Feyre crossed the wall. He saw her dream of Calanmai preparations and tricked Amarantha into letting him go, and he tracked her down. His first words to her were the truth (“I’ve been looking for you”) – not a lie to save her from the sketchy fae. 
Rhysand returned the day after Summer Solstice and saw Feyre with Tamlin, reeking of him. He purposely scared them to make Tamlin send her home. Then Clare Bedor happened. 
When Feyre returned to UTM, Rhysand was terrified but he decided he’d start fighting and fight dirty. 
When Amarantha started torturing Feyre after the third trial, Rhysand knew they were mates and he felt the need to try and save her. But then Feyre died. He willed her spirit to stay with him while he spoke into the high lord’s minds, convincing them to give her a second life. None disagreed. 
When they saw each other one last time UTM, the bond snapped into place. Rhysand ran to avoid taking her with him. He went straight to Mor and the first words out of his mouth after 50 years away, were “she’s my mate.” 
Rhysand let her be until she begged for help on her wedding day. When he came to her and saw the state she was in, he knew he couldn’t break the bargain. He watched her waste away with Tamlin but thought that if he told her the truth, she’d be taken away. Then Tamlin locked her in the house. 

“You love me?” Rhys nodded. “Then eat.”

– They make love and Feyre feels the bond strength, their scents merge. 
– They bathe and Rhys tells her they leave for the mortal realm tomorrow to meet the Queens. 
– Feyre is so happy about their bond she starts to glow. They give into the mating frenzy. 

Chapters 56-60
– They winnow back to camp and Cassian goads Rhys into a fight to purposefully help him expel some of his mating aggression 
– They go to the moral lands. Only two queens come this time. They show them the Veritas, and Velaris. It does nothing to sway them. They will not give them their half of the Book of Breathings. They leave. Then Rhysand spot the box left under the chair of the young, golden haired Queen. It is the Book.
– Rhysand offers Nesta and Elain a place in Velaris. They decline for Elain’s engagement. 
– In Velaris, Amren works on breaking the book’s code. Rhys goes with Mor to the Court of Nightmares. Amren works on the book. Cassian and Feyre go to the theatre. 
– Feyre and Cassian are in the city when they feel a tremor. An invasion of faeries like the attor descend on Velaris. Cassian tries to shield with his siphons. But they carried that special blue metal that nullifies magic. They break the shield and drop the golden haired queen, dead, onto a lamp post. 
– Cassian takes to the skies with Az and Feyre runs, passing the Rainbow, which is being decimated. Feyre winnows there. Feyre uses the Sidra River, becomes the river, and makes a pack of water wolves that hunt down the Hybern soldiers. The wolves transform into birds of prey and hunt the skies. Feyre turns the water to ice, dropping winged soldiers. 
– Feyre sees the attor running away. She picks up ash arrows and winnows into the sky. As Feyre goes toward the attor, death itself sweeps through Velaris in a cloud of night. Feyre winnows down on top of the attor from above. She stabs him over and over as they free fall. She winnows away as the attor splatters on the ground. Rhys finds her. 

“Feyre Cursebreaker, the Defender of the Rainbow.”

– The next afternoon, Amren cracks the code.  She warns against putting both halves of the Book of Breathings together, lest they wake ancient evils
– That night Rhys gives her the ring she took from the Weaver – he explains his mother put it there to be retrieved by the woman he wants to marry — to prove she is worthy. Feyre tells him she’ll wear it when they get back from Hybern.

Chapters 61-67
– They fly to Hybern. They go to the castle and Feyre follows the call right to the Cauldron. The cauldron has a pulsing energy — like a heartbeat. 
– While trying to read the spell that Amren decoded, Feyre gets sucked into the call of the cauldron and Az has to pull her back but then Jurian enters 
– Jurian distracts them while the King of Hybern weaves a ward to keep them there and unable to winnow out. Jurian fires a poisoned ash bolt through Az’s chest and they are all forced to follow him and the King to the throne room.
– Lucien and Tamlin walk in. Tamlin made a deal with Hybern: allow the Hybern armies to enter Prythian though the Spring Court so long as the King retrieved Feyre for Tamlin 
– They all see that she and Rhys are mates. Tamlin is basically trying to force Feyre to come with him and Feyre promises to destroy his court if he takes her from her mate, he doesn’t care. 
– The Mortal Queens enter, with Elain and Nesta, bound. The King reveals that he’s working with Ianthe and it was her who provided the info on Nesta and Elain and he plans to test the cauldron’s powers on them. The Queens are interested in being turned immortal by the Cauldron, and want a test to see it done.
– The King blasts everyone with power, shredding Cassian’s wings. The power leashes everyone, even Lucien and Tamlin who try and stop Hybern from throwing Elain into the cauldron. 
– Elain goes in and comes out Fae. Lucien breaks his leash with “a flare of light” and goes to Elain. 
– Nesta fights the whole way into the cauldron and she manages to point a single, cursing finger at the King before she’s forced under. She emerges different — like the cauldron was forced to give more than it wanted when it Made her 
– Nesta runs to Elain and takes her from Lucien, but Elain and Lucien are staring at each other, Lucien whispers, “You’re my mate.”
– Feyre cleaves the wards in a burst of light. She pretends that she was just freed from some terrible mind hold cast on her by Rhysand. She goes to Tamlin, begging him to protect her. She asks the King to sever her bond with Rhys. Rhysand objects, but the King breaks the bond. They both scream in pain and Feyre passes out. She comes to seconds later and Mor winnows to Lucien, grabs Nesta and Elain, showing Rhys that Feyre broke the wards, and they all disappear 
– Feyre tells the King, the Queens and Jurian that she is out for them for what they did to her sisters 

Chapter 68: Rhysand
– They land in the Townhouse. Amren rushes over and tries to start healing Cassian and Azriel. She demands to know where Feyre is. Mor fills her in that Feyre sacrificed everything, including the mate bond, so they could escape. Amren tells them it’s impossible to break a mate bond and Rhysand agrees — and tells them that Feyre knows it too
– Amren demands that he goes to get her and he says he won’t. Rhysand tells them that Feyre is now a spy and she’s going to take them all down from within. And, she’s the High Lady of the Night Court. They snuck away the night before and had her sworn in (right arm tattoo)

 Chapter 69: Feyre
– Feyre is in the Spring Court, ready to play. And while Lucien seems suspect about her, he can’t say anything unless he never wants to see Elain again.

A Court of Wings and Ruin

Rhysand: 2 Years Before The Wall
– Rhysand walks the battlefield after a brutal attack by the Loyalists (those who wanted to keep their human slaves) 
– Ravennia (a commander trying to take the Rebellion’s stronghold where their forge was kep
– Rhysand looks over every dead Illyrian to make sure none of them are Cassian 

Part One: Princess of Carrion 

Chapters 1-5
– Feyre is in the Spring Court trying to pretend to be someone she is not. We learn that she’s been keeping Tamlin at bay with lies and that after she left, Tamlin had destroyed her room and it’s now overrun with thorny roses. Feyre calls it a tomb. 
– Lucien keeps demanding info about the Night Court because of his mate bond with Elain
– Feyre meets with Ianthe for the first time since Hybern. Feyre muses if the jewel Ianthe wears on her head functions like a siphon, but notes that she’s never seen Ianthe use great magic. 
– Lucien is having a harder time dealing with Ianthe and Tamlin’s orders. He’s focused on Elain only. And he doesn’t trust the alliance with Hybern that Ianthe and Tamlin are set on. 
– Hybern is sending Jurian with two commanders to check the wall while the cauldron recovers “Turning my sisters into Fae, apparently, had drained it.”
– Everyone thinks that Feyre still smells like Rhys, not because the bond still exists, but because he’d forced her; had planted the scent there. And with time and distance, it would fade. 
– Jurian, Prince Dagdan and Princess Brannagh (twins) arrive (niece and nephew of the King of Hybern)
– Dagdan and Brannagh act as one mind, one soul, in two bodies. Feyre wonders if they are Daemati. 
– Lucien tells Jurian that a friend from the Dawn Court made his magic eye. 
– Jurian tells Feyre that he and Rhysand battled together side by side in the war. He demands to know where Miryam and Drakon are and Feyre says they’re dead – but Jurian claims that the cauldron said otherwise. Feyre realizes all of this talk is a distraction for the Twins to use their Daemati gifts to infiltrate their minds. Feyre’s shield is up, so she casts a shield toward Lucien and Tamlin as well and retaliates in an attack on their shields. Using the magic gives her a headache. 
– Feyre, Lucien, Jurian and the twins go to the wall. Feyre notes that the natural animals flee from the twins the same way as they do the Bogge. 
– Lucien says that the holes in the wall appeared over centuries. Feyre notes that there’s a wrongness to the wall. 
– When they return from their trip, Ianthe wants to speak to Feyre about the Summer Solstice ceremony. Lucien walks Feyre back to the house and he tells her that he was forced to take Tamlin’s place in the Rite on Calanmai and Ianthe insisted she be his partner. Feyre hates that for him. 
– Alis, Feyre’s handmaiden, is the only one that really knows the truth. She can see that Feyre’s body is not that of someone who was abused in the Night Court. Alis has family in the Summer Court that saw Feyre happy during their visit. Alis knows the game Feyre is playing. And decides to help her by offering her an all white gown to wear for Ianthe’s summer solstice ceremony. 
– Feyre worked with Ianthe on the ceremony, altering things until it was set as a trap. When the sun rose, instead of rising between Ianthe’s arms and bathing her in light, it shone right on Feyre, and she let loose her glow (from Day). Everyone is shocked, and Lucien, being the only person near her, kneels. Feyre spreads the glow to him too. Everyone assumes that Feyre is Cauldron-blessed.
– Feyre funnels info to Rhys though the bond, but it feels harder than usual 
– At the post-ceremony party, Feyre dances with Tamlin and wonders if selling himself to Hybern was really worth getting her back 
– That night, Feyre fakes a nightmare and rushes across the hall to Lucien’s room, seeking comfort. But it was all a ruse to have Tamlin walk in on them entwined. 

Chapter 6-10
– The next day, Ianthe tells Tamlin the land around her temple is blighted and she worries it’s the naga. They all see if for the attention grab that it is. 
– Feyre notes that her headache is worse, but she heads out with the same scouting party to go to another part of the wall. 
– Lucien and Feyre share a tent. Lucien tells her that the bargain Tamlin made with Hybern is magically binding and if he breaks it, there will be physical repercussions. Lucien explains that the magic in bargains is old and complex and even the scholars in the Day Court don’t quite understand it. 
– Jurian wakes them up, finding them cuddled together. Brannagh jokes that she’d pick Beron’s son too, because the Autumn males have fire in the blood, and fuck like it too
– The party finds a group of Children of the Blessed. The twins look like they’re going to devour the humans, so Feyre uses her mind powers to convince the humans to run. Jurian saddles up next to her and thanks her for sending them away. She tells him she has no idea what he’s talking about and he winks. 
– Jurian and Feyre sit at the fire together. Jurian tells Feyre his sole purpose is to get revenge against Miryam and Drakon, that he and Feyre are similar in that way. He knew Rhysand in the war. Rhysand sacrificed himself and his legion to save Miryam in a trap set for Drakon. Jurian knows he is not evil and he doesn’t believe Feyre’s lies at all.
– Lucien wakes Feyre with a hand over her mouth and the scent of blood in the air. They find that the royal twins murdered the mortals even after Feyre sent them away. 
– They get back to the manor and Tamlin is enraged because, in retaliation for harming the humans, Feyre and Lucien sent the Bogge after the twins. Feyre baits him into exploding in anger again, and she lets herself be physically harmed. Tamlin’s sentries are disgusted with him.
– Naga attack the manor. Ianthe let them in with the keys she stole from a guard she put asleep. The guard tries to tell Tamlin that it was Ianthe, but Tamlin cannot listen to him because the Hybern royals are there and he must appear strong. So he whips the guard, even though everyone knows that the guard is innocent. 
– Ianthe decides that she and Tamlin need to join the next wall scouting. Alis tells Feyre she is leaving when they go to the wall. Feyre tells her to never mention in Summer that she knows her, but that Alis will always have a friend in her court. 
– They all head to the wall. Feyre is feeling really dumpy and has a headache. Dagdan says they’ve been studying the holes in the wall because they need to find a spot that a person or object with mighty power passed through so that the cauldron can study it. 
– Feyre has what she needs, so she readies to leave for the Night Court. As she’s breaking away, she hears Ianthe and Lucien. Feyre finds Lucien shackled to a tree with the blue stone, and Ianthe trying to assault him. 
– Feyre breaks into Ianthe’s mind and forces her to unhand him. She then forces Ianthe to smash her own hand with a rock. Feyre uses her daemati powers to brainwash Ianthe into never assaulting anyone again. 
– Dagdan and Brannagh arrive in the clearing. They reveal that they’ve been poisoning Feyre with faebane stone. Feyre and Lucien kill the royal twins and Lucien tells Feyre that he’s going back to the Night Court with her; to help her now that her magic is gone, and to be with Elain. 
– They winnow until their magic runs out and then take a door (caves that led to other pockets in Prythian). They have to go through Autumn Court because Feyre cannot be in Summer. Lucien knows a place they can rest. 

Part Two: Cursebreaker

Chapters 11-15
– Feyre and Lucien hike north through Autumn for 5 days. Lucien mentions that they will need to stay hidden when they near the farm lands because everyone hates him there after Jesminda (his first true love) was killed by Beron. 
– They make it to the colder region, near the Winter Court border. Lucien thanks Feyre for having his back with Ianthe and Dagdan Brannagh.
– They find a cave and Feyre sleeps. She wakes to Lucien’s brothers restraining Lucien. Eris says they are taking them to Beron. Feyre and Lucien team up and use their fire powers to trap the brothers in the cave while they run. 
– As they climb and run, Lucien asks about Elain. Feyre tells him of her love for plants and gardening. She also warns him that she’s engaged to a human Lord’s son. Lucien says he wants to see her just once — to see if she’s worth fighting for. 
– They make it to a giant frozen lake within Winter Court and start crossing. Eris and the brothers catch up and send a line of fire into the ice, to melt it underneath Feyre and Lucien.
– The brothers winnow onto to the lake and one of them fires arrow at Feyre; one catches he ear, another goes through her right forearm. Eris captures her and binds her with fire bands. 
– Feyre is trapped when she sees a shadow rapidly descending onto the ice.

“Not a shadow. An Illyrian warrior.”

– Az and Cassian slam down onto the lake and start fighting Beron’s sons. Cassian runs Eris though on his sword. Feyre realizes they cannot kill these men without serious political consequences. She tells them to stop. 
– Beron Spawn: “There’s no such thing as a High Lady.” Feyre: “There is now.” Feyre reveals to everyone that she is High Lady of the Night Court. Cassian and Az take them away. They fly to where Mor is and then they winnow to the Townhouse.
– Amren greets them. Then Rhys appears and they have their reunion. He kicks everyone out of the house and gives Feyre a bath. Then they make love and reconnect. 
– Rhysand stands off with Lucien, telling him how things are going to be and the truth regarding his relationship with Feyre during her time with Tamlin.
– Feyre invites Lucien to come with her to the House of Wind. There Feyre and Rhysand tell Lucien their story. How they came to find each other. The truth of the Night Court
– Feyre meets with Nesta. Nesta is just as angry, hateful and volatile as always. Cassian looks upon her with sorrow and longing. 
– Feyre meets with Elain. Elain is empty and all she wants is to return to the human realm because her fiancé will be looking for her. Lucien overhears and is devastated. 

 Chapters 16-20
– They set Lucien up in a room and tell him they’ll return for dinner. 
– The IC meets at Amren’s apartment. They know that Hybern has allied with Vallahan (where Ianthe was), Montesere and Rask
– Feyre suggests getting Drakon and Miryam to help, but Az already flew to their island, Cretea, and found no one. 
– Rhysand tells Feyre that Miryam died in the War but Drakon knew of a sacred, hidden island where an object of great power had been concealed. Supposedly it was made by the cauldron itself. He used this object to resurrect Miryam — to Make her. 
– They discuss Hybern. Rhysand tells Feyre that unlike in the last war, the people of Hybern are all agreed on supporting this war because the King has allowed them to suffer for 500 long years. He has purposefully created a “dark age” that paints the time before the War as a “golden age.” 
– Feyre suggests that since all the High Lords made the wall, she might be able to patch it since she has their magic. Amren says her sisters might be better for the task since they were made by the Cauldron and so was the wall. 
– Rhysand says their best allies will be the other Courts in Prythian. He is sending out invites tomorrow for a meeting to take place in two week’s time. 
– They have dinner at the House of Wind. Amren tells Nesta that they are the same – they didn’t fit the mould that they were forced in; they couldn’t fit the mould. 
– Lucien pipes up and suggests they Feyre might need to hide her powers at the High Lord meeting — or else they’ll have to worry about his father joining Hybern just to watch her die. 
– Rhysand warns them that they’ll need to visit the Court of Nightmares and convince Keir to join the fight with his legion of Darkbringers.
– Feyre tells the group that she wants to learn to fly since she’s able to shape-shift. Azriel says he will teach her since he’s the only one who had to learn outside of childhood. 
– Feyre tells Nesta about what the King wants to do with the Wall and tells her that she might be able to patch it, having been made by the Cauldron itself. 
– Nesta asks if the mortal queens were made immortal. Azriel says reports are mixed.  She says she will help if they promise that everyone involved in her and Elain’s capture will die. She refuses to tell her story to the High Lords, however. 
– Rhys and Feyre walk Velaris after dinner. They discuss the High Lord meeting and the meeting with Keir. Feyre asks what mask she should don as High Lady and Rhysand tells her she has to decide. 
– Feyre heads to the House of Wind to train with Cassian. Cassian tells her that he’s angry at her for not telling them that she was their High Lady before going into Hybern. That things would have been different if they’d known. Nesta shows up and Cassian starts bickering with her. 
– Azriel comes to take Feyre to flying lessons. Azriel helps Feyre sculpt her wings with her magic and he compliments her, that her artistic attention to detail made them exactly like his own wings. They practice folding and lifting her wings. 
– Rhys takes Feyre to the Library under the House of Wind. Rhys tells her that many libraries were burned after the War because High Fae would have rather lost the info than let human get ahold of it. Rhysand also tells Feyre that some humans have magic — those that can claim distant Fae ancestry. They have to use spells, but they have magic. 
– The Library: Clotho (one of the dozens of priestesses that work in the library; she is silent and has mutilated fingers). The library is a massive cavern — like a beast carved it out of the mountain. At the bottom is something so wicked that once Cassican saw it, he hasn’t spoken of it in 200 years. 
– Rhysand explains that women who live and work in the library are all survivors of some kind. He gave them the library as a place to heal. They have the choice to stay there forever or only until they’re ready to leave. 
– Rhysand winnows in the Library — but there’s not supposed to be winnowing in the House of Wind. Rhysand says the library makes its own rules. 
– The research they find on the wall is contradictory. But it’s obvious that the wall was never made to last forever. 

Chapter 21-25
– Feyre and Cassian are going to the Bone Carver to try and strike a deal. Rhysand tells Feyre that when she’s inside the prison, she won’t be able to contact him via the bond because of wards set in place that are older than Prythian 
– “There was life here, before the High Lords took Prythian. Old gods, we call them. They ruled the forests and rivers and the mountains — some were those things. Then the magic shifted to the High Fae…” it is rumored that the bone carver is an old god 
– Feyre realizes that the Bone Carver presents to her as her future son, hers and Rhysand’s. The Bone Carver tells Feyre that he can smell his sister on her — The Weaver
– The Bone Carver tells Cassian that “they” shuddered in fear on the island across the sea the day Nesta was Made. The Bone Carver tells him that Nesta took something when she was Made and that “the wind moans her name.” 
– The Bone Carver says that he and his siblings: Stryga (The Weaver), and Koschei are death gods that were tricked and trapped by a Fae-Warrior (her bloodline is gone now but a trace runs through some human line). The Carver says that his siblings are Death-Gods, and he is in the prison hiding from them. 
– The Carver doesn’t want to go back to where he came from. He’s happy to hide in the Prison. Ouroboros: a window to the world. A mirror that once belonged to The Weaver (Stryga). All could be seen, could be told through its dark surface. The Carver says it belongs to Keir but he wants them to bring it to him and he will fight in the war. 
– Back at the House of Wind, everyone is readying for the trip to the Hewn City. Feyre visits Elain, who is in the library for once, with Nesta. Elain talks to Feyre in riddles. Nesta says that she’s been doing that for a few days now. While Feyre and Nesta are talking, Lucien walks in  and sees Elain. 
– Feyre spears into Lucien’s mind while he speaks with Elain. He thinks she’s the most beautiful female he’d ever seen. But he realizes that she doesn’t want him — she’s hung up on her mortal fiancé. 
– Nesta and Feyre go over and let them know they’re there. Lucien begs Feyre to get Elain out of the house. Feyre and Rhysand move her sisters and Lucien to the Townhouse that day. When they get there, Az takes Elain to the garden. Lucien asks Nesta what she is and she tells them that she made the cauldron give her something back. 
– Feyre asks Rhysand why Elain ended up mated to Lucien and not Az — it seems she thinks they’re better suited since Az is so quiet and can be so tender. Rhys says that fate decides. Feyre wonders why Az has held on to Mor all these years when a mate bond has never snapped into place. They dress for the Hewn City. 
– They arrive and Feyre sits on the throne. They do a little power play and then they meet with Keir in the war room. Keir is immediately difficult and doesn’t want to offer the Darkbringers. He insinuates he wants Rhysand to whore Feyre out in exchange for their use. Rhysand says he figures Keir would be unlikely to want to help, and then he tells the servants to bring “him” in. Eris enters. 

Chapters 26-30
– Rhysand tells Keir that Eris is offering a formal alliance in exchange for the Darkbringers. Keri wants more – he wants access to Velaris. Rhysand agrees to restricted access. Mor is devastated. Feyre tells Keir she wants the Ouroboros mirror as well. Keir tells her the only way to take it is to look in it, a task that has driven many to madness. 
– They are left alone with Eris. He says in exchange for his alliance with Keir and keeping his mouth shut about Feyre’s powers, he wants the Night Court’s support in taking the High Lord’s position in Autumn. He also tells Mor that there is so much more to their horrid history than she thinks there is. 
– They winnow back to the Townhouse. Mor is distraught. Rhys mind-speaks to Cassian, Lucien, Nesta and Amren about their working with Eris. Cassian is enraged. After everyone says their piece, everyone apologizes and calms down. 
– But then Amren catches that Feyre was looking for the Ouroboros and realizes they were speaking with the Bone Carver. Rhysand asks Amren why she will not tell them how she escaped she says:

“Because the stone beneath this house has ears, the wind has ears all of it listening… And if it reports back. They will remember, Rhysand, that they have not caught me. And I will not let them put me in that black pit again.”

– She explains that to leave the prison she had to give up what she was — become Fae. Once she yielded her “burning grace” she was able to walk out. They will need to make the Carver something else to release him. 
– Elain comes downstairs and tells them that she had a dream about a young hands withering with age, a box of black stone, a feather on fire.
– Elain goes to bed and Lucien comes back downstairs. He asks Feyre if they can get a healer to look at Elain. She agrees. 
– In the morning Feyre trains with Cass, then Az. Mor is at the Townhouse when she returns and the debrief a little. Mor is less upset now that she’s talked with Rhys one on one. 
– The healer, Madja, finds nothing wrong. Elain might be underweight but is okay. She cannot sense what’s happening in her mind though, because Elain is cauldron Made. She suggests that Lucien might be able to feel if there’s something wrong through their mate bond — since it’s a soul connection. Lucien manages to travel the bond to Elain, but she runs off before he can assess her. 
– Az and Feyre train. He tells her more about Miryam’s story. After the war, she marched her people to the coast under the cover of Drakon’s people—the Seraphim. When they got to the coast, the boats they had arranged weren’t there because their old Queen had sabotaged them. The Seraphim parted the sea for the humans to cross, but the Queen’s army caught up. Miryam, unbeknownst to Drakon, is stabbed by the Queen. A Seraphim cartographer, Nephelle realizes that Miryam and her lover are missing. She was a cartographer because her wings were too small for the legion, and she could not fly well. Nephelle finds Miryam, and against all odds, is able to carry her, fly her to safety when no others could because her wings were so slight. It defied all odds. They call this the Nephelle Philosophy– that sometimes your greatest weakness is your greatest strength. 
– Feyre returns home and Rhys gives her a full body massage to help with her pain. It ends with a happy ending. 
– Nesta and Feyre go to the library the next day. Nesta admits that she didn’t know Feyre was illiterate. They are walking around when darkness starts to seep in. Two fae makes step out of the darkness – one dark haired and one light (Elain had said, a white and a black raven are coming). Feyre recognizes them as Hybern. They breathe out faebane dust, nullifying Feyre’s powers. They are the King of Hybern’s “Ravens.” They tell them that they want Nesta – because she took something from the Cauldron and the King wants it back. 

Chapter 31-35
– Feyre decides, without her magic, her best bet is to take Nesta and run to the bottom of the library — and hope that whatever is down there (the thing that traumatized Cassian) will take care of the Ravens. 
– The Ravens taunt them as they chase. They speak about the young mortal queen who went into the cauldron and came out a crone. And suddenly Feyre understands that Elain has been warning them, seeing these things happen. They reach the bottom and it’s total blackness. Feyre tells Nesta to run and she knocks down all the bookshelves to block Nesta’s location. Feyre begs aloud for help. 
– An unearthly voice asks her if she is the High Lady. The voice wants a deal like the one she made with Carver; it says the stone told it about the deal she made. The voice asks for company. Feyre strikes a bargain, marked in ink on her left forearm. It asks if it should kill them and she says yes. It tells her to close her eyes and then the screams start. Cassian and Rhysand arrive and carry them out. 
– Feyre and Nesta tell them what happened and Rhysand fills in what he was able to take form the minds of the Ravens before Bryaxis killed them. Rhys tells Cassian to send the alert to shut down Velaris for the night so Amren can go hunting. 
– They go to Elain, who tells them that the Queen with feathers of flame might still come to ally with them. Azriel realizes that she’s a Seer. Feyre muses that maybe the Cauldron gave Elain something, while Nesta took. 
– Azriel was the only one that actually heard her — understood what she was. 
– Elain explains about the missing Queen: the other mortal queens sold her to a dark sorcerer-lord who collects women like her. She is a Firebird by day, a human by night. The Queen is kept at a lake, deep in the continent. Azriel says the Queen’s name is Vassa. 
– Mor offers to find Vassa. She argues that Elain is seeing her for a reason and they must need her. Everyone argues that Mor is too important to send away.  Lucien offers to go. He claims his eye will help him and he wants to be useful. Everyone agrees to send him. In the morning, Lucien readies to leave. He looks back at Elain once, then winnows way with Rhys. Elain takes a half step toward him before he disappears. 
– Amren storms into the Townhouse — Hybern has attacked Summer Court and is laying siege to Adriata. They ready to join the Summer Court. Rhys leaves to winnow the Illyrian forces. Mor and Feyre arrive together. Adriata is in shambles. Mor and Feyre head to the castle. 

Chapters 36-40
– The High Fae are all barricaded in the upper levels, so Mor and Feyre head down to the servants’ levels and absolutely wipe the floor with Hybern’s forces. They clear the castle and take to the streets. In a standstill, Feyre spears into Rhysand’s mind. He’s flying from enemy ship to ship looking for the reason that his power is so dampened. He finds the ship that the nullifying power seems to be emanating from, and out step the King of Hybern. 
– Rhysand tries to enter the King’s mind, but finds nothing. The King tells Rhysand that it will take everything he has to defeat him and when Feyre is crying over this corpse, the King will take her. Rhysand sends a magic spear toward the King, a killing blow — but the King flickers, an illusion. Rhysand explodes all the ships. 
– They meet with Tarquin. Tarquin tells Feyre that he thought she’d come to finish him off. Feyre tries to tell him that their dreams are the same — that they want the same things. Tarquin learns that she and Rhys are mates and she is High Lady. 
– They help tend to the wounded until Feyre passes out. When she wakes, she and Rhysand discuss moving the High Lord’s meeting up. She tells him they need to drop the masks — be real with the High Lords. 
– “His growls of pleasure filled the tent, drowning out the distant cries of the injured and dying.”
– They pack up. The Illyrians return to their southern camps, Cassian goes to the Steppes to inform families of losses, everyone else goes back to the Townhouse, where Amren and Nesta are nervously waiting for news. Nesta wants to know where Cassian is. 
– Feyre asks Rhysand to take her to the prison. There, Feyre begs the Carver to pick another object but he only wants the mirror. Rhysand learns that Feyre sees him as their firstborn. Rhysand asks what he looks like so Feyre shows him with her mind. 
– When they get back to the Townhouse, Elain is baking bread with the Wraith sisters. 

Chapters 41-45
– It is finally agreed upon that the meeting will take place in Dawn Court (High Lord Thesan) 
– Feyre muses that, all dressed up, crowned, and ready to go to the meeting, she and Rhys are Night Triumphant and Stars Eternal 
– Nesta comes and says she’s decided to come with them to the meeting after all. Nesta and Cassian have an oddly emotional moment in which Nesta is almost vulnerable. 
– They winnow to Dawn. They walk up the steps to the assigned chamber. Rhys tells Feyre: “You bow to no one.”
– Peregryns: winged Fae distantly related to Drakon’s Seraphim, provide a small aerial legion for Thesan 
– Mor and Viviane, Kallias’ mate and wife reunite and Mor introduces Feyre. Feyre learns that Viviane took care of the Winter Court the same way the IC took care of Velaris during Amarantha’s reign. She and Kallias were childhood friends, but he loved her all along, and when he was away UTM, she realized what they were to each other. 
– Everyone finally gathers and Thesan urges Rhysand to begin the meeting, but before he can, Tamlin winnows directly into the room. 
– Tamlin is immediately on the verbal attack toward Feyre and Rhysand. He tries to blame the new war on Rhysand taking Feyre the first time. He tries to blame Hybern’s presence in Spring on Feyre destroying his Court. He goads Rhysand about the noises Feyre makes during sex and Azriel growls, “Be careful how you speak about my High Lady.” Tamlin accuses her of being a status chaser. 
– Tamlin tries to turn Kallias against Rhysand in retaliation for the younglings that were killed by Amarantha. Rhysand is forced to tell the truth — that he was outplayed by Amarantha that time, and that she had him confined to her bedroom. Rhysand swears on Feyre’s life that he had nothing to do with and tried to prevent it from happening.
– Then Kalliad asks Tamlin why he showed up. He claims he wants to fight Hybern. They don’t take him seriously, even after he offers up plans and stollen maps and documents. Tamlin continues to whine and blame everyone but himself. He insults Feyre again and Rhysand takes his ability to speak away. The other High Lords realize exactly what kind of predator Rhys really is. 
– Tarquin rescinds the blood rubies for their help in defending Adriata
– Eris smarts off to Mor and Az tackles him tot he ground, strangling him. Az was someone able to break though the wards against physical attacks. Feyre calls him off — making a statement by doing so. 
– They finally get back to the meeting and Helion says that they need to tackle the issue of the faebane that Hybern seems obsessed with using. Thesan says they have a solution and brings in Nuan – one of their most accomplished crafts people (the one who made Lucien’s eye)
– Nuan tells them that Lucien sent her samples of the Faebane in Velaris to experiment on without telling Rhysand. 
– Helion says that the Spring Court will need to be evacuated. Tarquin says they will take the citizens after Beron refused. 
– Beron goes on to antagonize everyone and say he hasn’t decided on whether he will join the war or not. He starts purposefully taunting Feyre about Rhysand having sacrificed himself with Amarantha, working her up into a tornado of emotion. She snaps and sends a lance of fire straight for Beron. 

Chapters 46-50
– Feyre attacks Beron using all her magic, revealing that she has a kernel from them all. Rhysand manages to stop her before she kills him. Beron tells them he hopes Hybern kills them all. Nesta tells him the meeting is not over, and tries to convince them. Beron and his ilk leave. 
– Feyre tells them that those kernels of power are hers now and she will use the to defend Prythian, as she has done so already. They all agree to join them. 
– They’re led to their rooms. Helion comes alone to the Night Court rooms and Feyre gets to see him unmasked. We learn that he’s been trying to have a foursome with Mor, Cass and Az for centuries. 
– Helion tells the story of Lady Autumn. How she was sent to be with her sisters during the War, but Hybern found them and her sisters distracted the forces while Lady ran. She was trapped in a ravine when Helion found her and shredded the enemies with his bare hands (it is suggested that Helion and Lady Autumn might be mates). They had an affair off and on for centuries. Beron finds out and begins brutalizing her. Feyre realizes that Helion is Lucien’s father — and sends it down the bond to Rhysand who is shocked. Lucien is likely Helion’s sole heir. 
– Nesta tells them they need to leave — that something feels off. They check everything and find nothing amiss. They go to bed. 
– The next morning, before they can restart their meetings, Nesta begins to feel very ill and vomits on the floor. She tells them there’s something wrong with the cauldron. And then a giant earth quake shakes the whole island of Prythian. Rhys spears his power out, and finds that Hybern has just destroyed the wall using the cauldron. War is here. 
– They go back the Townhouse. They all debate what to do with the humans that live where Feyre’s family lives. Elain suggests they go to Graysen’s estate (the man she was to marry). They warn her that since Graysen and is family hate fae, even with glamours, it could go wrong. Elain: “It’s already ended badly. Now it’s just a matter of deciding how we meet the consequences.” She makes everyone swear they won’t kill Graysen. 
– Feyre goes to Amren and tells her she wants to make another bargain with Bryaxis. And she needs Amren’s help to understand the wards keeping him in. Feyre offers Bryaxis the chance to hunt and fight in the war. He doesn’t want freedom, he’s content to live in the library but he wants a window so he can see the world from his home. The bargain is struck: Amren will release him when the time is right and in exchange, he will get a window.
– They prepare to head to the Steppes to ready the Illyrian warriors. Then they will head to Graysen’s estate. 

Part Three: High Lady

Chapters 51-55
– At the Illyrian camp, Lord Devlon is scared of Nesta. Mor glamours Elain and then Feyre, Elain, Rhys, Mor and Az go to the moral lands. 
– Graysen and his father will not let them inside the compound, so they meet them in the guardhouse. Feyre gets a little freaked out by the small space, but Rhys reassures her. She admits to Nesta she has some claustrophobia issues. Nesta admits she cannot take a bath, she must use buckets. 
– Lord Nolan and his son, Graysen enter the guardhouse. Elain and Nesta try to beg them to allow humans to find shelter in their stronghold. Nolan says he will not listen to liars — as he knows that Elain was turned by the Cauldron first and has it on good authority that she is mated to a High Lord’s son. They ask how he has learned these things and Jurian walks in. 
– Jurian explains that Hybern resurrected him because it was believed he was mad and Hybern thought that he would be easy to manipulate into helping with the mortal Queens. But Jurian is not mad and has been playing a long game to get back to the mortal lands. Jurian asks why Rhys hadn’t already looked in his mind to see the truth. Rhys admits he didn’t want to look and see Amarantha. He tells them that he is here now because the wall is down and he’s free to move, and because Tamlin went right back to Hybern after the High Lord meeting – there will be an attack tomorrow on the Summer border. He tells them that he’s been publicly saying that he’s hunting Drakon and Miryam because it was the only warning he could give them about Hybern. 
– Graysen turns nasty and tells Elain that he will never want her and demands she give back the ring. Rhys steps in and tells him she may keep it if she wants. Jurian tells Rhys to have Cassian hit the right flank of Hybern’s forces. They return to the Steppes and prepare for war. 

Chapter 56-60
– The troops are exactly where Jurian said they would be. The battle is quick. Cassian kills their commander and then Tarquin drowns the remaining Hybern grunts. 
– Cassian is compared to Enalius — most ancient warrior god and first of the Illyrians. Nesta is able to tell that he has a wound on his arm without actually seeing it. She tends to him in a tender moment. 
– Feyre and Rhysand have some time alone in their tent and Rhys spends his post battle adrenaline on Feyre’s body. Feyre admits that the battle that say was difficult — more difficult than the chaos of the battles in Velaris or Adriata. 
– Four days later, Az says they finally found some Hybern forces moving toward the Winter border. Varian suggested they weave a glamor. Make it seem like the army still stationed at the southern border of Summer, but secretly move toward Winter. 
– They find the Hybern forces on the eastern border of Summer and take them on. This battle is worse. Hybern is more organized and Prythian is getting pushed pack. Feyre realizes that they cannot keep chasing these battles around the island. They need to find the rest of Hybern’s army and meet them for real. Not even Az can find them. But someone can. The Suriel. 
– Feyre tells Mor to join the battle — that she’s needed there more than with Feyre and her sisters. With Mor distracted, Feyre decides to hunt the Suriel. Feyre goes to Elain’s tent and asks if she can find the Suriel with her sight. Elain says he’s moving toward the middle — near the Weaver. 
– The Suriel: “This time, you sent the trembling fawn to find me. I did not expect to see those doe-eyes peering at me from across the world.” He tells Feyre that he cannot see Hybern’s forces because of the Cauldron and neither can Elain. Only Nesta can find the army. He says Nesta can use bones and scry. 
– Feyre asks him if she will go mad if she seeks the Ouroboros (The Mirror of Beginnings and Endings) he says only she can decide if she’ll be lost to the madness. He tells her where Amren needs to look in the Book of Breathings to find the key to stopping Hybern right before an ash arrow pierces his throat. Ianthe and two Hybern soldiers appear. 
– Ianthe tells Feyre that the King of Hybern unraveled everything Feyre did to her mind. Ianthe caught the Suriel and tried to get info, but the Suriel refused. But the cloak she had used to entice him, was enchanted with a tracking spell that would ping in Feyre’s presence. Feyre realizes that she cannot let the Suriel or herself be taken by Hybern. So she runs to the Weaver’s cottage. Feyre traps Ianthe and the guards inside, where the Weaver devours them. 
– Feyre returns to the Suriel where he is dying. He reminds her to stay with the High Lord — Rhys. To stay with him. He asks Feyre to leave the word a better place than she found it and then dies. Feyre realizes that all this time her helped her because he too was a dreamer. Feyre cries and cries until Helion comes to get her. She requests his cloak, which she uses to wrap the Suriel in and then Helion burns him and they winnow away. 

Chapters 61-65
– Feyre returns to find that Cassian was basically gutted on the field because he didn’t listen to an order from Rhys. The healer mended him after Az held his guts in, but everyone is mad at Cassian, and at Feyre for leaving without telling anyone. 
– Mor pulls Feyre inside her tent and they fight about how neither one has been truthful. Mor tells her to get out. Feyre walks outside to see Amren arrived. 
– They have Nesta scry. She gets stuck in some terror in her mind, unable to release the bones and stones from her hand onto the map. Feyre spears into her mind and helps her get out. The stones and bones land in a perfect circle around an area of land very near to the Archeron estate in the human realm. They tell Tarquin and Helion. Varian kisses Amren in front of everyone. 
– They go to bed. Feyre dreams of the cauldron, of Elain being lured by Graysen. She wakes and her, Nesta and Amren can hear the cauldron singing. Az mentions that his shadows recoil from the sound but he cannot hear it. Az is the one to ask, “what about Elain?” They all break into a run to her tent. She is gone. 
– Az tells them he is going to get her back from Hybern. Feyre shape-shifts into Ianthe and says she’s coming with. Az and Feyre arrive in the Hybern camp. All the soldiers are celebrating, some gathered around a rack where a woman – a Children of the Blessed was hung. 
– They run into Jurian — who recognizes who Feyre really is. He plays along, but Feyre must act like she is Ianthe, lusting after him. He takes Feyre (as Ianthe) to where Elain is, with the cauldron. Az grabs her and they make for the western edge of camp where there is a cliff. They are immediately chased by beasts similar to the Naga — the only thing that could track them while cloaked in Az’s shadows. 
– Feyre is hit with an ash arrow and goes down, where the beasts surround her. Then she hears the roar of beast-Tamlin, who appears to give her time to flee. The girl that was on the rack is waiting by the cliff, put there by Jurian. Feyre stands and Az tells her to summon her wings as they race to the edge. Elain screams at the girl to cling to Az if she wants to live. Az takes off into the air and one of the beats launches at him, dragging its claws down his back and wings. But still he flies. 
– Feyre runs, trying to get her wings to take off. She muses that all that time she spent learning to fly had been fated for this moment. Then right before the cliff’s edge, a spring wind gives her the push she needs. She blows a hole in the shield and they escape. 
– She looks back and sees Tamlin run and leap off the cliff, through the hole, and winnow away. 
– They return to camp and everyone gets looked at. Helion breaks the chains on Elain. Nesta shows real emotions and gratitude toward Feyre. Elain kisses Az’s cheek. Then the three sisters cuddle up like they used to in their single bed. 

Chapters 66-70
– Kallias and his army come, and with them, quite a large host of lesser fae, beings that aren’t quite humanoid. They take Briar, the human girl Az and Feyre rescued. 
– Mor pulls Feyre aside and they make up. Mor tells Feyre that she doesn’t love Az, not the way that he loves her. That she cannot love him that way — because she prefers females. 
– She explains that she isn’t out because it’s the last thing that her family knows nothing about, so they cannot use it to hurt her. It belongs solely to her. Mor says she took her first female lover in the War. She saw what Nephelle and her wife had and wanted that freedom. Mor fell in love with a human Queen, Andromache. Mor knew they didn’t have a future, as the Queen was expected to bear children so she left. By time she realized how much of a mistake she made, the Wall had been erected and she was stuck. When she finally made it over, the Queen was married with children. 
– War discussions ensue. Hybern’s forces are on the move, going east instead of north. Cassian and Helion realize it’s because Hybern strategically trapped the Prythian forces inside an area with a river that will be costly to cross just so Hybern will gain a head start on slaughtering the humans. 
– They decide to meet Hybern in battle. Feyre suggests they go to the human realm and winnow as many humans out as possible before the fight. Tarquin offers Adriata for their new home. 
– Amren bursts in and tells them she found a way to stop the entire army, but it’s going to take all those who were Made: Amren, Nesta, Elain and Feyre. 
– They spend all night winnowing humans out of the territory to the south. When Rhys passes out from exhaustion, Feyre decides that she’s going to do everything in her power to help him; that he’s single handedly sacrificed enough. She winnows to the Court of Nightmares to retrieve the mirror. 
– Feyre finds the Ouroboros. Feyre watches her reflection in the mirror and sees movement behind her from a best of fur and feather and scale, prowling toward her with blue gray eyes and black and gold skin. She realizes that the beast is what lies inside her. 
– She goes to the Prison, mirror in tow. The Carver asks what she saw. She doesn’t tell him; but her inner thoughts are that she saw a great many things. The Carver tells her that she needed to look into the mirror to prove to him that she was worthy of risking his life for, because only the rarest people can look at who they truly are and not be afraid. He will fight for them. 
– The next day it the big one — the final battle. Az gives Elain Truth-Teller. Rhys tells Feyre that Az has never given another person his blade, never let another so much as touch the knife. 
– Rhysand gives them a pep talk. He tells them how grateful he is to have them in his life. How they have enriched his world. He tells them that he believes everything happens for a reason, and this battle is no different. And that if they are fated to die, he will go, happy to have had what he did, a court of dreams. 
– The Battle for Prythian:
– First, both sides try to take down each other’s shields. Feyre tells Rhys she got him a mating gift, and sends him an image of her back, covered in tattoos for bargains. When Hybern’s shield drops, she releases the glamour she had on Bryaxis and the Carver (as an Illyrian male, with a bone scythe). Then Rhys reveals he bargained with The Weaver and she appears. They start demolishing the army.
– Rhys mists an entire chunk of the army — splitting it in two, and the Illyrians take that as their cue. They are met in the sky by Attror-like creatures. 
– Then come Beron, Tamlin and Jurian leading the human army with Graysen. It’s the perfect distraction for Amren and the sisters to leave to look for the Cauldron. They follow the Weaver, who is murdering a path to the Cauldron; which she found due her to her extraordinary sense of smell. 
– As they make their way, Nesta suddenly tenses and starts screaming for Cassian. He flies toward them just as a giant blast from the cauldron incinerates thousands of aerial soldiers, and would have taken out Cassian, if not for Nesta’s ability to sense exactly where the blast was going. On the second blast, the Cauldron takes out the Bone Carver. 

Chapters 71-75
– Nesta is grounded, totally wiped from the reverb from the Cauldron’s blasts. Cassian wants to stay with her, so Az goes into battle even though no one wanted him to because of his wings (from rescuing Elain). Then, another horn sounds, but this time, it’s an armada for Hybern coming via the sea. They all start to disperse, basically saying their goodbyes, knowing that with the armada, they are doomed. Then horns sound again, dozens of beautiful horns. Drakon and Miryam arrive with their people; winged and on boats. 
– Drakon tells them they were headed to Prythian when they came upon a group – led by Vassa, and they joined them. Feyre assumes it was Lucien who found Vassa, but Drakon tells them it wasn’t Lucien. It was The Prince of Merchants, their father. He had found out that the mortal Queens were corrupt months ago and went searching for Vassa. He found her and bargained with the Death-man who kept her.
– Vassa flies over the Hybern fleet, as a firebird, burning their ships in her wake. 
– Nesta asks to be used her bait. Let the King think that she is going to use his power against him; make him come to her to kill her, while Feyre and Amren take care of the Cauldron. Cassian will guard her. Rhysand forbids it. He knows Cassian will die defending Nesta, but Cassian tells him he must. He must do this. And so he does. 
– Amren and Feyre run for the Cauldron. They near it, the Weaver there to defend them when they feel Nesta rallying its power. The King of Hybern appears and snaps Weaver’s neck. 
– Amren and Feyre reach the Cauldron. Amren tells Feyre to touch the Cauldron and she does. Feyre is swept away in the power, barely able to hold onto herself. Feyre waits for Amren, but she doesn’t read, doesn’t give Feyre the book. Instead she kicks the book away and Feyre realizes that Amren laid her own trap. 
– Feyre gets sucked into the Cauldron’s power and spears across the field with its consciousness. She feels the Cauldron searching for Nesta. She sees the bloodbath. She sees Keir trying to rally the Darkbringers. She sees Rhysand unleash himself, turning into a beast of nightmares – the same as the beasts that make up his throne at the Hewn City. Helion sees, and transforms into a beast the opposite of Rhysand, of daylight, and they unleash themselves on the Hybern army. She goes to Nesta, who is ready to unleash a killing blow on the King. But when he winnows in front of her and Cassian, he has their father, a knife to his throat. 
– The King tries to goad Nesta into giving what she stole back but ultimately, he snaps their father’s neck. Nesta freezes as he dies, but Cassian attacks the King. Nesta closes their father’s eyes, kisses his brow, and rises with uncut power gleaming in her eyes. 
– Cassian yells out, broken on the ground. Nesta unleashes her power and the King winnows away, so she blasts thousands of Hybern’s forces instead. The King is excited by this show of power—he sees her as a potential weapon to be wielded. Nesta takes him on with Cassian’s sword. He disarms her but she rallies with a blast of power while he’s distracted. He flies through the trees with the blast. 
– Nesta runs to Cassian, begs him to get up while they still can. He’s unable to move, to leave with her, so he begs her to run. Cassian tells her his only regret in life is that they didn’t have more time, and then he kisses her. The King approaches with dark magic coming from his hands (this causes the Cauldron to pause). Nesta covers Cassian’s body with her own — ready to die with him. Feyre begs the Cauldron to spare them. She will sell her soul to it to save them. 
– The King prepares a blast of dark magic – then his hand falls, and a choking sound comes from his mouth. A black blades protrudes from his throat as Elain stabs him through the neck with Truth-Teller. Nesta wraps her hands around the hilt and twists the blade into the King’s throat—decapitating him.
– Feyre falls back into her body, with the knowledge that she needs to do something – Rhysand needs help. Amren is screaming for Feyre to fight the cauldron. Feyre comes back into herself and Amren tells her that the Suriel pointed them toward an unbinding spell — just for Amren. Feyre needs to act as a conduit and when Amren unleashes, she will wipe the army to dust. 
– Varian appears and begs Amren not to do it. She tells them that she saw the humans where she was from — watched them feel and fall in love and she thinks that the rip in the world was a gift. A way for her to feel the things she always wanted to feel. She mind-speaks the spell to Feyre and throws herself into the Cauldron. 
– The Cauldron shatters into three pieces as Amren bursts from its confines. As a giant, firey winged behemoth, Amren flies over the battlefield, killing the enemy as she goes. And as she burns the last one, she and her light, disappear. 

Chapters 76-80
– After Amren disappears, a hole appears where the cauldron was. Feyre remembers that the Cauldron was what made the world, so for it to be gone, the world is being Unmade. 
– Rhysand winnows to her. He reminds her that she is a conduit and asks her try and reforge the cauldron. He offers her his power. Rhysand and Feyre forge the cauldron anew. Made and Unmade. 
– The Cauldron is repaired but when Feyre turns, she finally sees the cost to repair it. Rhysand is dead. 
– Feyre screams and screams and screams. Thesan comes and tells them there’s nothing to be done. All the High Lords gather and start to give their condolences. Then Feyre remembers what the Suriel said – stay with the high lord. She grasps for the mating bond, torn inside her, and then demands that the High Lords bring Rhysand back. They do. 
– Rhysand lives. And tells them to drag poor Amren out of the Cauldron. Varian and More run over to rip her out. Feyre can tell that in order to save them, and come back, Amren had to give up her “other,” form – now she is just High Fae 
– The Archeron sisters go to take care of their father’s body. Lucien comes up and checks over Elain. 
– Feyre walks to her tent, and Drakon and Miryam are inside with Rhysand. Feyre asks them to take the Cauldron with them to their island and Drakon agrees. 
– Feyre calls a meeting. They gather in her family’s estate, damaged from Hybern. Feyre meets Vassa, who hopes that she and Helion can help break her curse. High Lords and humans come together and Feyre asks for them to renegotiate the Treaty. 
– The war band dismantles and everyone goes home. It will be a long road of working together in order for peace to truly be had.

 Chapter 81: Rhysand
– Rhysand is just so relieved the they made it out and that they all have this time together. 

Chapter 82: Feyre
– Bryaxis is missing
– Feyre and Rhysand make the bargain that if one of them dies, so does the other so that they never have to live without each other again
– Feyre and Rhysand fly over Velaris together, happy to know they will have many nights like this ahead

A Court of Frost and Starlight

*This has POV from Feyre, Rhysand, Cassian, Mor and Nesta*
Feyre:
– It’s been nearly a year since Rhysand saved Feyre from her wedding.
– Feyre discusses all the ways that the Hybern war affected them emotionally
– Elain lives with them in the Townhouse. Nesta and Lucien each have their own apartment. 
– Feyre has been volunteering and working herself to the bone to help. 

Rhysand:
– Is at Devlon’s camp (Windhaven) with Cassian. They are still trying to get him to train the females as agreed
– Rhysand says that they’ve all been so busy, he was forced to have sex with Feyre while flying home
– Cassian warns Rhys that dissension is getting worse among the Illyrians 
– Feyre will turn 21 on the Solstice

Cassian:
– Cassian flies above Ramiel — the sacred mountain. The heart of Illyria and the Night Court
– Ramiel had always felt alive, awake and watchful. Shining black rock on top. 
– The Rite happens every spring. Ramiel and the three stars that appear above during the Rite make up the Night Court Insignia. 

Feyre:
– Feyre shops for Solstice gifts in the Rainbow. 
– Feyre comes upon a building that is still ruined from Hybern. The female (Ressina) from the attack, who held the line in front of her gallery, approaches Feyre. She tells Feyre that the abandoned galley is for sale because the owner, Polina, died. The female invites Feyre to their painting night. 
– Mor finds Feyre while shopping and tells her that they’re headed to the Hewn City tonight
– Fae females have twice yearly menstrual cycles
– Elain has been ignoring Lucien when he’s around and Lucien has shown no sign of bridging the gap between them

Morrigan:
– In the Hewn City she remembers the day she was brutalized and dropped on Eris’ land. Eris told no one to touch her, or else she would be their responsibility. He leaned over her and asked if she wanted to live there and when she didn’t respond, he knew she didn’t. So that’s why he didn’t help her.
– Eris tells them that Beron is looking to expand his territory south, potentially into the human lands because Tamlin is not protecting his borders as he should 

Rhysand:
– Az brings Rhysand reports from the Illyrian camps; estimates for the discontent. Azriel is very vocal about his dislike for the Illyrians. 
– Azriel scares Rhysand sometimes — the frozen precipice that he exists on. It’s hinted that Az killed his brothers. 
– They discuss that the Human Queens are a problem, Vassa has said as much. Az suggests they send Lucien to help Vassa and Jurian deal with them. Rhys tells Az that Lucien is away and Az admits he doesn’t keep eyes on Lucien because it would be an invasion of Elain’s privacy. 
– Rhysand says that Az understands him best, next to Feyre. Rhys will be visiting Spring to talk to Tamlin about his borders, where Lucien currently is. 

Cassian:
– At Windhaven, Cassian visits the general store where he meets Emerie, the daughter of the previous owner, who died in the Hybern war. Emerie’s wings are clipped. 
– Cassian buys every bit of winter gear that she has on sale. It seems people have been avoiding shopping there now that Emerie has taken over. Cassian asks her to deliver them to the folks that need it most — a gift from their High Lord. 

Feyre:
– Feyre goes to Ressina’s studio for paint night. She can’t bring herself to enter so she winnows to the abandoned gallery and paints herself as she saw herself in the Ouroboros 

Rhysand:
– The Spring court is a mess. The manor is a tomb. Rhysand finds Tamlin as a completely broken male. With no regard for his life or his borders. 

Feyre:
– Cassian and Feyre decorate the Townhouse while drunk and Az has to fix their ugly decorations. 
– Elain and Feyre discuss Nesta — how she’s basically totally withdrawn from everyone and refuses to act like part of their family anymore 
– Everyone comes for dinner, except Nesta. Az forces Cassian to wait for Elain to be seated before he eats. 
– Amren bemoans having to eat food and use the bathroom now that she’s only Fae. Elain asks her about how she chose her form and Amren warns Elain that she cannot become human again.
– Feyre and Rhysand track down Nesta at The Wolf’s Den. Nesta is cold, lifeless, mean. She doesn’t want to come to Solstice. Feyre cannot even bribe her. Nesta starts to make a scene and so Feyre turns away. Nesta reminds her that her tent is due. 

Rhysand:
– He and Mor talk one on one. He asks her to visit the various Kingdoms on the continent to discuss the political future. 

Feyre:
– Feyre buys the tapestry of Void and Hope. 
– Feyre goes back to the abandoned gallery and paints more. She’s caught by Ressina who tells her that the family of the woman who owned it would likely sell the gallery. 
– She leaves and bumps into Rhys, waiting outside. Feyre tells him she’s been painting at the gallery, that painting helps her. She muses that maybe having a space to paint might help others too. 
– Feyre drops by Amren’s to see if she has an insight into Nesta. Amren will not say. 

Rhysand:
– Az and Rhys are keeping the info regarding the dissent in Illyria from Cassian until after Solstice
– Everyone gathers in prep for tomorrow (solstice)

Feyre:
– Solstice / Feyre’s Birthday. 
– Rhys, Cass and Az leave for their traditional solstice adventure 
– Lucien shows up. He tells Feyre that he’s been staying with Jurian and Vassa at an estate they were gifted. They call themselves the Band of Exiles and they are good friends. Lucien tells Feyre that he cannot be in Velaris. He cannot stand to be in the same room as Elain for more than a few minutes at a time. He wants to be away. Lucien drops the presents and leaves. 
– Feyre asks Elain why she can’t even spare Lucien a moment of her time. Elain basically says she doesn’t want a male — she wants a human man. 
– Feyre learns that the bat boys are having an annual snow fight at the snowy cabin that Feyre exiled herself to after she learned she was Rhys’ mate. Az wins. Her and Mor stay and Feyre gets Rhys kicked out of the steam room by sending him naughty thoughts. 
– Back at the Townhouse, they start opening presents when there’s a knock at the door. Nesta has arrived. 
– Notable presents: Feyre gives Rhys the painting of her beast-self. Elain gives Az headache powder (as a inside joke), Lucien gives Elain enchanted gloves (that she hates)
– When Nesta leaves, Cassian goes storming after her

Cassian:
– He follows Nesta and begs her to talk to him. She refuses, and she refuses his solstice gift. 
– He’s mad. Mad that she’s drinking and sleeping with males. They fight.
– He throws the gift into the Sidra. 

Nesta:
– Nesta is broken. 

Feyre:
– Rhysand winnows Feyre to then Cabin for some peace. He tells her that all of her grand dresses were made by his mother 
– Feyre tells him that she doesn’t want to wait to try for kids. That she’s ready now. 
– They make love all night. 
– The next morning, Rhys winnows her to a riverside estate. He tells her that he bought it so that she can build a house big enough for everyone. 

Rhysand:
– He returns to Spring. Tamlin is basically the walking dead — completely devoid of hope. 
– Rhysand prepares a meal for him, tells him to eat. He tells him he’s arranged with Tarquin to have troops sent to help. Then he leaves.

Morrigan:
– Athelwood, her estate. She sees a patch of darkness, unlike Az’s shadows. Her power tells her to not go near, so she doesn’t.

Feyre:
– She tells Ressina that Polina’s family gave her the abandoned galley

Rhysand:
– The Ironcrest Illyrian camp is rival to Devlon’s. Kallon, the son of its Lord is a novice. 
– The females are training  

Feyre:
– 1 month later: grand opening of Feyre’s studio. 

A Court of Silver Flames

*9 months after ACOFAS*

“Wrapped in black eternity, Nesta and the Cauldron twined, burning through the darkness like a newborn star.”

Part One: Novice
Chapters 1-5
– Cassian goes to Nesta’s apartment because Feyre requests her presence. Cassian hasn’t seen Nesta in a month — since the end of summer barge party, where she and Amren got into a fight. He gives Nesta an hour to get ready and leaves. 
– Nesta has been using sex, music and drink to keep her simmering power at bay. It took her months of forcing herself into a bathtub for her to be able to bathe. Nesta doesn’t think she belongs with everyone in the IC and her sisters — she thinks every foul thing Rhysand thinks about her is true. 
– Cassian returns to check on her. He can smell how many males have been in her bed. 
– Nesta and Cassian arrive at the Riverside estate. Nesta claims that Elain and Feyre were doted on by their father while she was prized and trained by their mother.
– Nesta’s High Fae power never manifested, she only got what she stole from the Cauldron. Nesta walks into an intervention. Feyre, Rhysand, Amren and Cassian tell her that she’s done. Enough is enough and she will be moving into the House of Wind (HOW) to train with Cassian. 
– Feyre says she will train every morning in Windhaven, work in the library after lunch, and will never go back to her apartment again. Amren tells her that because she never resigned as their human emissary, by law, she is a member of their court and therefore the High Lord and Lady can dictate what she does (this isn’t true, but they’re telling her it is). 
– Amren gives her two options: 1) follow the plan laid out: train and work in the library with no access to the city unless she traverses the 10,000 stairs, or move back to the human lands. 
– Nesta requests a moment alone with Feyre. Feyre tells her that she tried to let Nesta deal on her own, but Nesta didn’t even try. Nesta thinks that it’s better to be kept away when she’s seen how easily it can all be taken from her. Nesta doesn’t agree with this plan — she feels like it’s another way she’s being controlled, another way all her choices are being taken from her. Nesta tells Feyre she never wants to speak to her again. 
– Cassian and Rhys speak: Kallon (the warrior from ACOFAS) died in the Spring rite. The dissection in Illyria seems to be better after the Rite, when some of the more radical novices were killed off. Rhys tells Cassian that handling the Illyrians had been a test, that Rhysand thinks Cassian is ready to do more — be more. Rhysand asks Cassian to look into the situation with the human Queens. 
– Mor returns from Vallahan and winnows Cassian and Nesta to the HOW. After dropping Nesta off, Cass and Mor have lunch at a cafe where they discuss Vallahan —they refuse to sign the treaty that Rhys and Helion worked on because the mortal Queens are still stirring. Mor says that the Queens might be trying to start another war, like maybe they have something in their arsenal that makes them think they stand a chance. Cassian says they should talk to Vassa. 
– Mor says that Lucien is compromised when it comes to Vassa because they are so close now, so Cassian will have to visit himself. 
– Eris managed to convince Keri to indefinitely suspend his trip to Velaris as a sign of good faith toward the Night Court and Mor.
– The next morning, Cassian forces Nesta to eat so she can train. Cassian is affected by Nesta in her fighting leathers. He realizes it’s been two years since he had sex. 
– Mor winnows them to Windhaven, where Cassian is humiliated by Nesta refusing to train in front of Devlon and then Illyrians. 

Chapters 6-10
– Mor comes to pick them up and realizes that Nesta did not do any training. Mor tells Nesta that she’s known people like her whole life and Nesta doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt that people like Cassian gives her. 
– Nesta reports to her first shift at the library and meets Clotho. 
– Cassian goes to the Band of Exiles manor. Eris is there. Cassian laments being told to do this courtly intrigue stuff. Eris tells everyone that one of his patrol groups went missing and even his highly trained and magical hounds cannot find them or their trial. 
– Vassa mentions that the human Queens knows treachery like none other and have dealt with threats far worse than Hybern. She tells them Briallyn (the young Queen turned old by the Cauldron) is most likely to cause trouble. 
– Cassian starts to loose his cool, and Lucien basically alpha barks at him to calm down. The dominance in his command stops Cassian’s rage. 
– Eris says that the other Queens have scattered, leaving Briallyn in their seat of power. Vassa says she would need someone of great power behind her to make a group of Fae disappear — Koschei (Bone Carver’s brother). He is the same death-lord who imprisoned Vassa. 
– Vassa explains that he tricked the queens into selling him Vassa. That all he does is to free himself. He turned her into a firebird with an ancient spell. 
– When Cassian leaves, Eris follows him out and tells him that his father, Beron, has promised his forces to Briallyn and the war she wants to incite. Eris says Beron went to the castle with some of Eris’ best men but they returned different. Eris wants to be in on everything Cassian does. 
– Nesta makes it to 111 stairs. 
– Day two of training is just as useless. Nesta visits Emerie’s store where she injuries about warmer leathers
– At the library, Nesta meets Gwyn — an acolyte who has been in the Library for two years. She works under Clotho’s right hand, Merrill. 
– The House of Wind begins fussing over Nesta, and she talks back to it. Nesta wakes from a nightmare and cannot sleep. She attempts the stairs again but manages to trip and start falling down them. In an attempt to stop her descent, her fingers dig into the stone in sparks, leaving a permanent handprint in the stone. 

Chapters 11-15
– The next day, Cassian is at a breaking point with Nesta. He’s tried to keep reaching out his hand, like Amren suggested, but nothing is helping. He and Nesta have a fight, where hateful words are exchanged. Cassian realizes that Nesta has been saying that she won’t train at the camp, so he sets up a ring at the HOW
– They strike a bargain: Nesta will train for one hour and Cassian will owe her a favor. The tattoo: an eight pointed star on their backs. 
– In the Library Gwyn is looking for Lavenia’s The Great War. She accidentally grabbed the wrong volume. Gwen says that she was an acolyte before coming to the Library, from Sangravah. She enjoys the music part of worship – especially dusk ceremonies. To help, Nesta asks the Library for the book and swaps it for Gwyn. 
– Nesta finds Gwyn singing, her skin and hair glowing. Gwyn says that Merrill is a scholar who was reaching the possibility of worlds stacked on top of each other. Now she’s writing the history of the Valkyries. 
– While training the next day, Nesta asks about Sangravah. Cassian tells her Hybern raided it for a piece of the cauldron two years ago and slaughtered or !TW! raped everyone there. 
– Cassian goes to the Spring Court with Rhysand where they have a meeting. Eris wants them to take out the Queens. Rhys and Cass agree that’s too risky. Beron is thinking of taking over the Spring Court, as Tamlin is now nothing more than a beast — literally. Rhysand seems distracted, more than usual. 
– In the Library, Nesta sees darkness where Bryaxis uses to live. It whispers her name. Gwen finds her and tells her they should move higher, that others see the darkness, and it follows them to their doors. Gwen says she feels something, like a cat – small and curious and watching. Gwyn uses her Invoking Stone (similar to the siphons but channels the power of the Mother) to shield them as they flee. Nesta tells Gwyn that the darkness down there feels older than Bryaxis, different from it. 
– In training, Nesta and Cass talk about how training has helped Cassian deal with the roughest parts of his past. Nesta realizes that he’s defensive about his trauma, because she has belittled him before about it. 
– Cassian tells Nesta about the Prison at dinner. The beings he helped put there — the First Gods; beings with almost no physical form, but a vicious, keen sense of intelligence. One such being was Lanthys. Cassian tricked him into being caught by trapping him in a mirror framed in Ash. Another such being was Blue Annis— cobalt skin and iron claws and a taste for female flesh. 
– They fight, Nesta not wanting to answer Cassian’s questions about her power. He goads her into showing the silver fire burning in her eyes. She backs him into a wall: “Your power is a song, and one I’ve waited a very, very long time to hear, Nesta.” Nesta pleasures herself that night to the thought of Cassian. 

 Chapters 16-20
– At breakfast, they are sexually charged and one look has Cassian at attention. He runs away to pleasure himself before they train together. 
– During training, Nesta really watches Cassian and realizes that he’s powerful, a legend, finally grasps that he’s the closest thing they have to a warrior-god.
– The Blood Rite; one week in the Illyrian mountains without magic, weapons or flying. Illyrians possess magic one night a year — the night before the Rite, when war-band leaders can winnow their novices into the wild. Once you reach Ramiel, it takes a day to hike to the top where you touch the sacred stone and get transported out.
– Novices that survive the week are sorted based on how far they got: Arktosian—survive, but don’t make it to the mountain, Oristian—make it to the mountain but not the top, and Carynthian—the ones who scale the mountain (elite warriors) 
– Only 12 have become Oristian, only six (including Az, Rhys and Cass) have become Carynthian 
– Nesta suggests that they train the priestesses in the Library too; Cass says he’ll train whoever will come. She puts a signup sheet in the library but no one signs up. 
– Elain visits. Nesta is instantly on the defensive and is completely consumed by the feeling that Elain has always been hers and now she’s Feyre’s, so Nesta is horrible to her. 
– Cassian goes to see what happened to send Elain away crying, and he fights with Nesta again. 
– Nesta rushes down the stairs. She makes it to 1,000. When she returns, Cassian is waiting. He tells her that she’s allowed to take as long as she needs to work through her internal issues, but he can take whatever she wants to throw at him. She kisses him. 
– They end up having a heated moment against the wall in which Nesta rubs him to completion through his pants. He looks shocked, and Nesta takes that as regret. So she leaves him there. 
– In the morning, Az tells Cass he and Nesta are needed at the River estate. Az tells them what he’s learned of Briallyn and Koschei. It seems that she’s looking for the cauldron to repair her youth, and Koschei wants her to find the Dread Trove to free him from his lake. 
– Dread Trove: Cauldron made objects. Some say there were four but modern legend speaks of three: The Mask (can raise the dead), The Harp (can open any door) and The Crown (can influence anyone). 
– Nesta admits that she doesn’t know what she took from the Cauldron, just that she took. 
– They are worried because if Briallyn finds the Trove, she will be able to track the Cauldron. Not to mention the power from wielding the Trove. 
– Amren warns them that Made items don’t want to be found and have the ability to alter memory so that entire peoples forget they exist. Because they have sentience. Rhys suspects that the only way they’re all able to even remember enough to speak about it is because the Trove allows it. 
– Cassian asks how they will find it and Elain says using her. 

Chapter 21-24
– Amren claims that because Nesta and Elain were Made by the Cauldron, they are immune to the influence and power of the trove. 
– Nesta forbids Elain from seeking the Trove and Elain yells at her that she went through all the same things as Nesta, and yet, Nesta uses Elain’s trauma like her own. 
– Nesta asks Feyre why she can’t do it, since she’s the warrior of them. Feyre admits she’s pregnant. 
– Back at the HOW, Cassian wants to settle the pleasure debt between them. He goes to Nesta’s room. He orally pleasures her and she realizes she’s never felt like that before. 
– At training the next day, Nesta asks to see Cass and Az spar. Cass muses that Az is the best of him and Rhys — evenly matched with Cassian in fighting, evenly matched (sometimes even better than) Rhysand at mental games and tasks. Nesta fantasizes about them in a threesome
– In the Library, Nesta asks Gwyn about the Dread Trove. Gwyn says she’s never heard of it, but will look. 
– Cassian mentions that Az’s mother still lives.
– Clotho has called for a meeting with Cassian. She writes that Nesta has been practicing in the Library and will not stop despite her requests to. He finds Nesta punching in an alcove. Cassian gives her pointers about her stance. He realizes that she set him up to come there and instruct her in front of the females so that they would see how he is with her. 
– Back in her room, Nesta finds that Cassian left her a book, The Dance of Battle 
– The next day, a single name is on the signup sheet. Gwyn. 

Part Two: Blade 
Chapter 25-30
– Gwyn comes to training. Nesta asks why she signed up and she says, “I don’t ever want to feel powerless again.”
– Cassian takes Nesta to Windhaven with him and she visits Emerie. A male named Bellius (Emerie’s cousin from Newcrest) is inside, trying to pressure Emerie into giving up the store. He leaves and they dine together. Nesta offers for Emerie to join her for training in Velaris. She declines. 
– Cassian meets with Eris while at Windhaven. Eris says her father doesn’t know about the Trove but worries that the Trove might be reaching out to more people if it wants to be found. 
– Back at the HOW, Cassian tells Nesta about Eris and how much Cassian hates working with him. Nesta gets on her knees and takes him in her mouth. After he finishes, he prepares to fuck her on the table when Az comes home. 
– Next day, Cassian goes to Windhaven, and on Nesta’s request, takes Emerie some tea and spices. 
– The next day, Emerie joins them for training. Emerie struggles with balance. Cassian says it’s because of her clipped wings. She admits that her father did it himself and that she fought him, so his work is sloppy. 
– Nesta wakes from a nightmare and the House comforts her. It also gives her tools to scry but she’s scared. She tells the house she cannot risk it and the house seems disappointed. 
– Cassian goes to the monthly Court dinner and Amren stresses that Nesta must search for the Trove. Amren warns Cassian that Nesta has a week before they ask Elain to look. 
– In the Library, Merrill scolds Nesta for exchanging books on Gwyn’s behalf. Merrill says that the wind speaks to her – as a descendant of Rabath, Lord of the Western Wind. 
– We learn that Gwyn’s grandmother was a river nymph who seduced a High Fae male from the Autumn Court. Her mother took part in the Great Rite, resulting in Gwyn and her twin sister’s conception. Her twin had webbed fingers but Gwyn does not. 
– Nesta stands up to Merrill and the next day, more females show up to training. 
– That night, Nesta scries but is unsuccessful. 
– Cassian wakes but doesn’t know why. Az comes out of his room and they walk around until they hear Nesta scream in terror. Cass barges into her room to find her bathed in silver fire. The fire radiates cold. She screams so loudly that the windows burst out and night streams in, Rhysand along with it. He smothers her fire with his darkness. Their powers battle it out. Cassian walks closer and calls out to Nesta, softly. The fire banks enough they Rhys can enter her mind. Slowly he clams her into sleep. 
– Rhysand is visibly shaken. He tells Cass and Az that the silver fire is only the surface of her power. Rhysand saw her nightmare — saw exactly what happened in the cauldron. Az asks what her power is and Rhysand tells them it’s death. “Pure death.”
– Nesta wakes to Cassian sleeping in a chair by her bed. At training the girls talk about their nightmares. 
– Cassian visits Rhys. Rhys is not well. He tells Cassian that the baby has wings, that Feyre had been in her Illyrian form when they conceived. He says Madja has banned Feyre from shapeshifting again while pregnant. Az walks in. He tells them that no one is to tell Feyre about the risks of her giving birth to a winged baby as a High Fae. Az suggests summoning Lucien so that he can help them break the pregnancy news to Tamlin, so there’s isn’t even more fallout. They need Spring to be strong against Beron. 

Chapters 31-35
– Cassian goes back to the HOW after sparring with Rhys. Nesta asks what’s wrong and Cassian explains half-Illyrians. He tells her they are exceedingly uncommon. Illyrian females have special pelvises that allow for the wings to pass during birth. High Fae females do not have this and they often die during the birth, or the baby does. And cutting them out have always ended badly. 
– Nesta says she will scry again, to help keep the world safe for her nephew. Cassian says that Rhys, Amren and Az need to be there when she tries. At the River house they gather to help Nesta scry. Nesta becomes Death. 

“Death watched him. But Death had walked beside him every day of his life. So Cassian stoked his thumb along her palm and said, ‘‘Hello, Nes.’”

– Cassian kisses her, slowly bringing her back from otherworldliness. He warms her sending heat into her— and warms the whole room. And she drops the bones. 
– The bones circle The Bog of Oorid (in the Middle). Once a sacred place where warriors were laid to rest. It is forbidden to map the Middle because it’s the only place that wild magic is free. Nesta says they’ll leave tomorrow to look. 
– Az, Cass and Nesta go. The bog is completely devoid of life. Az whispers that it’s an evil place, that there could be Kelpies. Cassian says that non-human Witches used to live there, banished by the High Lords to the Bog. 
– Lightsinger: lovely, ethereal beings who lure you, appearing as friendly faces when you are lost. Cassian describes them as being evil. Azriel disappears. They find him battling two dozen Autumn Court soldiers. Cass drops Nesta into a tree and flies to help Az. Nesta worries they’ve been gone too long and begins looking for them. A female voice in her head tells her to run and not look back. She peers into the water and sees night-dark eyes looking back through. 
– A Kelpie emerges from the water, and the voice in Nesta’s head screams at her to run. Paralyzed by fear, she does nothing and gets dragged into the water. Cass and Az bind two soldiers to question. Az tells Cassian there’s something wrong with them — they are blank. They realize Nesta is missing. 

Chapters 36–40
– Under the water, the Kelpie toys with Nesta, keeping her alive. It drags her along the bottom, when she sees the mask. Before the Kelpie can stop her, she slams it onto her face. 
– Nesta summons all of the dead soilders to attack the Kelpie. 
– On shore, Cass and Az are frantically searching for Nesta in the water. They try to communicate with Rhys, but cannot get the message out of the Bog. Suddenly, the water starts churning. A line of Oorid soilders come from the water. Behind them, Nesta rises from the water wearing the mask, the decapitated Kelpie head in her hands. Cass and Az give into the primal power, yielding, and they bow. Nesta removes the mask and the grab her. 
– Az’s torture room is the only place in the Court of Nightmares that everyone, even the Darkbringers fear. Beneath the floor lives a pit of monsters. Inside the IC (minus Mor) interrogate and torture the Autumn Court males, but they are mindless. Feyre says they need Helion to try and break the spell on the soilders.
– They go to the room that they warded the mask in, finding Nesta there. She says that the mask opened the door for her, broke the wards for her. Ameren tells her that only a fool would don the mask, most needed to be decapitated to remove it—the cost of wielding that level of power. Nesta says she asked it to come off and it did. 
– They ask Nesta what happened and she mentions that the Kelpie spoke to her in a language she doesn’t know. Rhys asks her to show him. Rhysand shows Amren too and they agree that it’s speaking the language of the Ancient Fae. It hasn’t been spoken in Prythian for 15000 years. Amren explains that Kelpies do not reproduce, they were made by the hand of a cruel god. 
– Nesta bathes off the Bog and Cassian enters (Moonstone Palace). They have sex and Cassian seems devastated that Nesta wants “just sex.” He walks out with any cuddles or anything and Nesta feels something like regret. 
– At training the next day, Gwyn tells them of some Valkyrie mind training and Nesta wants them to start doing it without Cassian knowing. 
– They start training with swords. Cassian has Az join them as a tutor. Cass remembers that Az was the one who found Gwyn at Sangravah. Gwyn keeps looking across the ring at Az and Cass worries that he should have told her. 
– That night the ladies work on mind training. 
– Cassian takes Nesta to a blacksmith. Nesta hammers a blade and Cassian swears the world pauses as she unleashes herself in the hammering. 
– Lucien comes to Velaris. He watches Nesta training and tells Cassian that he wonders if some things should not be awoken. As Nesta continues to punch, she unleashes some of her power and burns a mark in the wood. When she walks away, the wood is ice cold and when Cassian touches it, it dissolves into ashes. Lucien: “Mother spare you all.”

Chapters 41-45
– Helion comes to the Hewn City of a Pegasus. His prized black stallion, Meallan. Legend says that the Pegasus came from the island the prison sets on; it had once been fair meadows. 
– They tell Helion that Feyre is pregnant. He assessed the Autumn soldiers. Helios says it’s not a spell or an enchantment, but a fog, and influence. Everyone realizes that Briallyn has the Crown – and she’s using it to influence the soldiers. 
– They show Helion the Mask and he is almost made ill by its presence.

“Perhaps an ancestor of mine once used it, and the warning of its cost is imprinted upon my blood.” 

– Feyre orders Az to stop seeking out Briallyn now that they know she has the Crown and could potentially influence him. She asks him to remove his spies. 
– Cassian takes Nesta dinner the night and they have sex. 
– Cassian is summoned to the River house. The blacksmith that Nesta and Cassian had visited dropped off all the blades (dagger, short sword and great sword) from that day in a panic. Claiming they’re cursed. Amren tells Cassian that a magic sword hasn’t been forged in 10,000 years. The last was Gwydion; that went missing when the Trove did. 
– Gwydion: had belonged to the last King of Prythian. A high fae who united the lands until his own Queen and fiercest general betrayed him. Gwydion was given power by the High Priestess, Oleanna during its forging by dipping it in the Cauldron. 
– Amren tells them that Nesta Made a new Trove and none of them should be wielded. Amren says that Nesta must never know, she would willingly make a Trove of Nightmares. 
– Amren leaves and Rhys tells Cass and Az that cannot find anything to help Feyre with the baby. 
– They unsheath the great sword, against Amren’s advice. It glows like starlight. Amren says that Amarantha found and destroyed the Made sword, Narben, when it wouldn’t yield to her. 
– Amren tells Rhysand that he could become High King with those blades. That having a United Prythian is what they need for future conflict. They discuss how it would be hard to rise above his friends in other courts without coming across as a traitor. How there would be internal war. 
– Rhys: “Why do you want me to turn conquerer?” Amren: “Why do you shy from the power that is your birthright?” Amren: “Then explain to me why, after thousands of years, objects that once crowned and aided the old Fae have returned. The last time a High King ruled Pryhtian, it was with a magic sword in his hand. Look at that great sword before you, Rhysand, and tell me that it is not a sign from the Cauldron itself.” Amren: “[the Cauldron] wanted those weapons Made, and thus they were Made. It wanted Rhysand to have them, and thus the blacksmith brought them to you. To you, Rhysand, not to Nesta.” Rhysand refuses to entertain the discussion and Amren says: “But know that the Cauldron’s benevolence will extend to you only for so long before it is offered to another.” 
– Nesta and Cassian meet Eris in the Spring Court. They tell Eris the fate of his soldiers and the they will return the two that live, but they ares still under the Crown’s control. Beast-Tamlin comes and Nesta hands him his balls on a platter. 
– Mind-stilling: the Valkyrie mind training techniques
– The battle of Meinir Pass – a suicide mission where a lot of the Valkyries died in the War. 
– Cassian uses the 8-pointed star technique of sword training. 
– Nesta proclaims that if they are going to be Valkyries reborn, they need to meld Illyrian and Valkyrie techniques together. And staying this aloud feels like a Truth – like fate is paying attention, even Az turns to watch them fully, like his shadows whispered something to him. Cassian

“Something old becoming something new.” 

– Elain tells them all that Nesta makes dance floors into battlefields. 
– Cassian tells Nesta about how she Made the weapons. She gets mad that they didn’t tell her sooner and that they voted about telling her, talked about it without her. Amren voting against her is the finals straw. She storms away and down all the stairs into Velaris. 

Chapters 46-50
– Nesta barges into Amren’s apartment and begins accusing her of betrayal and not being her friend. Amren tries to tell her that she cannot be trusted with her power when she doesn’t even want to understand it. Varian is there and runs to Feyre’s paint gallery. Feyre shows up at the apartment and Nesta drops the bomb they the baby Feyre carries will kill her during birth. 
– Rhysand finds out that Nesta told Feyre. Cassian is genuinely scared of Rhys – says that he becomes something right out of Hell. Rhysand tells Cassian to get Nesta out of the city immediately or else he’ll kill her. 
– Cassian flies them into the wilderness where he plans to camp with Nesta until she’s ready to come home. Feyre mindspeaks to him, to tell him that she’s furious, but that Rhysand overreacted. 
– Cassian muses that Mor once told him that the land was once used for healing. That folks would venture out there for peace. He has never seen Nesta hate herself more than right then. 
– They hike for days until the reach a lake. Nesta falls to her knees and cries. Cassian tells her that she doesn’t need to fix herself – she needs to help herself. She can leave all of her sins in the past and try, try to start new. 

Part Three: Valkyrie 
Chapters 51-55
– Gwyn introduces the white ribbon 
– Nesta joins Gwyn for the evening service because she misses music. Gwen’s voice was unlike the others “like Gwen was calling only to her, her voice full of sunshine and joy and unshakable determination… it was like a ray of pure light, piercing and summoning.” Nesta loses herself to the music and has a vision of the Harp. It calls to her and she to it. She awakens it. She sees it beneath the Prison. 
– Cass tells Rhys what Nesta saw and he approves them to look in the Prison. They enter and Nesta’s vision takes them past Lanthys’ cell. They come to an arch and beneath is the harp. The room is full of carved marks. Nesta notes that the spells in the room feel different than any other she’s felt. Cass says the probably predate the Prison itself. He muses that maybe the prison itself was built to mask the Harp’s presence. The prison island might have even been an 8th court. 
– Nesta approaches the Harp and sees that there’s a solar system carved into the floor, with the Harp in the middle, on top of an 8 pointed star. Nesta realizes she was brought here by forces bigger than the Cauldron. She has visions of a people trapped in stone. Then she sees Briallyn.
– The Harp speaks to Nesta- telling her how to use it small strings for light movement and leaping, final stings for wondrous things. She plucks a small one to break the wards so Cassian can come in. Nesta tells him they must run; that Briallyn knows they’re there. 
– Nesta names the Made sword Ataraxia
– When they pass Lanthys’s cell, they see its open, Nesta accidentally opened it with the Harp. Lanthys tells Cassian he’s been waiting to see him again. Cassian distracts him so Nesta can run. She does but then uses the Harp to portal back. She begins to fight Lanthys with her Made sword and he asks her which death God she is – “who are you beneath that flesh?”
– He realizes that Nesta has the power of the Cauldron itself and tries to weave her a story of them ruling together. She sees the Trove in the vision, even the fourth item, but it’s foggy; all she can make out is some bone 
– “Ataraxia sang the heartsong of the wind as it whipped through the air.” Her and Cassian kill Lanthys. They have to run because Briallyn has sent soldiers to try and get the Harp. Nesta uses it to poof them to the River house. 
– Daglan Myth: Fae were created by beings who were near-gods—and monsters. They ruled for millennia and enslaved both Fae and humans. They drank the magic of the land like wine. Fionn, a Fae warrior, was gifted Gwydion by High Priestess Oleanna. They overthrew the Daglan and a millennium of peace followed. Fionn unified the territories and became High King. Fionn was betrayed by his Queen, and his best friend, his general. They killed Fionn and then the court system and High Lords rose. 
– Rhysand decides they need to solidify their alliances in preparation for dealing with Briallyn. First, is to secure Eris, who is coming to the Winter Solstice party at the Hewn City. He wants Nesta to seduce Eris – not into bed, but just enough to have him thinking about what he has to gain from their alliance. 
– Nesta and Cassian go to the Archeron cottage where Feyre was first taken. Nesta reflects on how angry she was with the father and how much she truly failed Feyre. 

Chapters 56-60
– A month passes. Nesta learns the dances required from Mor. 
– Emerie expresses attraction to Mor. 
– The HOW leads Nesta to the dark pit of the Library, and Nesta realizes that it’s the heart of the HOW – the darkness. 
– The Solstice party at Hewn City: Feyre and Rhys tell the court, and Eris, that she’s pregnant. Cassian muses that the Night Court black sucks the life out of Elain – that she doesn’t belong in it. Rhysand gives Eris Nesta’s Made dagger. Nesta dances with Eris. 
– Eris and Nesta speak: he tells her that Mor knows the truth but will not reveal it because she is afraid of it. Eris tells Nesta that she is wasted at the Night Court. Cassian butts in and dances with Nesta. Then Az takes over. 
– Cassian stands with Mor while Nesta and Az dance. Rhysand lets them into his mind to see his convo with Eris: Eris asks Rhys what he wants in exchange for allowing Eris to have Nesta as his bride. Rhys tells Eris it’s foolish to offer him anything he wants in exchange for Nesta, but Eris says, “I have my reasons.” Cassian knows there’s much more to that statement, something that even Az’s spies know nothing about. 
– Solstice at the River House: Az is tormented by seeing Elain and Lucien together, even though she doesn’t express interest in Lucien. In fact, Elain barely interacts with Lucien, who looks full of heartbreak and longing. Cass gives Nesta a Symphonia that plays music. 
– That night, Cass and Nesta have sex and twine their souls together. They express that they belong to each other. That there will be no others.
– Cassian is gone for days. Nesta has a sleepover with Gwyn and Emerie. Gwyn speaks of her fraternal twin, Catrin. They make friendship bracelets and Nesta imbues the charms with magic so that their wishes will come true. 
– Cassian returns after almost a week and the ladies are trying the ribbon again. “I am the rock against which the surf crashes. Nothing can break me.” They all slice the ribbon that day, anointing themselves Valkyries. 
– Az and Cass add an obstacle course. When Nesta, Emerie and Gwyn pass, Az reveals that they really passed the Blood Rite Qualifier. 

Chapters 61-63
– Nesta conquers the stairs on Starfall. 
– Amren tells Nesta that she Made the House of Wind when Nesta wished for a friend. It proves to Nesta that her magic is not always bad. 
– Spring dawns. Rare red star blasts across the sky—the priestesses say it’s an ill omen. 
– Cass and Nesta meet with Eris. He tells them about the three sister mountains that are sacred to them: The Prison, Ramiel and the Mountain Amarantha used. 
– Back in Velaris, Nesta tells Cassian that they aren’t mates and he explodes, telling her that they are mates that he’s known it since the moment they met. They fight and Cassian says he didn’t choose to be “shackled” to her either. She cashes in their bargain-she asks him to leave her alone for one week, or until she comes to speak to him. Mor winnows her to Emerie’s shop. Gwyn shows up. They talk and Nesta decides she’ll tell Cassian everything in the morning and they’ll start new. Then when they’re sleeping, they’re drugged. Cassian goes to Windgaven to find they’ve been taken to compete in the Rite. 

Part Four: Ataraxia 
Chapters 64-70
– Nesta wakes in the Rite first. She realizes that they’re out there in nothing but their nightgowns. Even worse, it looks like someone put weapons out there, which should be forbidden. 
– Cassian is a mess when he realizes they’ve been entered into the Rite. They tell him they cannot remove the females from the Rite. Az says that Eris has been captured by Briallyn and they need to rescue him. Cass begs Rhys to go instead, he tells them he cannot because he and Feyre made a bargain to leave the world together – that when one dies, so too will the other. 
– Cass and Az leave to free Eris. 
– In the rite: Nesta takes a knife, kills a male and steals his clothes. Nesta realizes she made the charms on their bracelets into beacons. The charm urges her to hurry. She runs into a male. She stabs him and runs toward where he said Emerie was. Nesta hears males say that Emerie jumped into the river. Nesta finds her unconscious and grabs her out of the river. She carries her away and a male (Balthazar) comes and tells Nesta to come with him to a cavern. The animals of the forest decimate the novice warriors overnight. Emerie wakes and they gather clothes from the dead warriors so they can set out to find Gwyn. 
– They see Gwyn’s night gown hanging form a tree near a group of males. Bellius, Emerie’s hateful cousin, leads the band. He is vacant eyed and says that “she” thought to add the weapons to the Rite – Briallyn. A forest beast comes and kills some of the men. They hear Gwyn yelling from the other side of the ridge. Gwyn explains that she led the beast to the males. 
– Pass of Enalius Myth: one of the key battles between the Fae and their oppressors was fought at Ramiel. The enemy was desperate to reach the stone at the top. Enalius held the line for days. He had found a natural archway of stone and made a bottleneck. He held off long enough for their allies to reach them. The Rite is to honor him. The hardest path to the top takes them through the Pass of Enalius. They call it the Breaking. 
– In the morning, they decide to try and make it to the bridge before anyone else can sabotage it. 
– Cas and Az finally lay eyes on Eris. He’s sitting upon a horse, wearing his Made dagger – which might protect him from the Crown but Az and Cass suspect betrayal. 
– Nesta, Gwyn and Emerie manage to cut the bridge. Gwyn takes an arrow to the leg. They make it to the foot of Ramiel. Only 12 in history have made it that far. Nesta wants to stop there, to persevere their strength and not risk Gwyn’s life by trying to scale Ramiel.
– TW RAPE: Gwyn tells Nesta and Emerie her story. That she was raped by a Hybern commander because she would not give up the location of the children at Sangravah. Az arrived shortly after and slaughtered them all and gave her his cloak. Morrigan arrived next, then Rhysand. She went to the Library after.
– Emerie explains how her father was a brute who beat her mother to death and then beat her when she was gone. 
– Cass and Az follow Eris. They are going somewhere that feels old, like the Middle. 
– The Valkyries are almost to the Pass of Enalius when Bellius and his goons arrive behind them. Nesta puts Gwyn on her back and they climb. 
– Cass and Az realize that Eris is under the thrall of the Crown. 
– They reach the Pass but Nesta cannot carry Gwyn anymore. She tells them she will hold the line. Nesta knocks Gwyn unconscious with a pressure point and asks Emerie if she can carry her. She does. 

Chapters 71-75
– Cass and Az follow the cloaked figure and Eris to Koschei. Azriel takes Eris and flies him away. Cassian is taken by Briallyn and winnowed away by Koschei. 
-Gwyn and Emerie make it to the stone and teleport away. Nesta and Bellius battle at the arch. Nesta takes him on hand to hand, claiming she will beat him “because my mate taught me well.”
– Cassian appears on the mountain, under the thrall of the Crown, ordered to murder Nesta. Briallyn explains that she set this trap so that Nesta would be forced to give her the Trove in exchange for releasing Cassian. Nesta refuses. The Queen orders Cass to “kill” and he angles the blade to his own chest right as dawn breaks and Nesta erupts with the power of the Cauldron. Nesta incinerates Briallyn to ashes. She Unmakes her. Az and Mor show up. They tell them that Eris is safe and confused at Hewn City. But there’s something wrong with Feyre. 

Chapters 76-80
– TW: Birth Trauma; Feyre has gone into premature labor and is deathly pale. She’s lost a lot of blood and the baby is stuck in the birth canal. Feyre demands that Madja cut the baby out, despite the risks. Madja cuts the baby out. He is unmoving and small. Rhys starts screaming and Cassian knows that they’re all dying and nothing can stop it. 
– Cassian is holding Rhys back while Madja tries to heal Feyre when Nesta glows gold. She’s wearing the crown and mask and holding the harp. No one has ever wielded all three and lived. Nesta freezes Rhys, and with eyes not of the world, plucks the twenty-sixth string. 
– The 26th string is time – and Nesta stopped it as Feyre took her last breath. Nesta bargains with the Cauldron. If it shows her how to save Feyre, she will give the power back. Nesta heals Feyre and the baby
– The baby is named Nyx. 
– Nesta explains that she changed her and Feyre’s anatomy to Illyrian pelvises so that this will never happen again. 
– Eris tells Cass that he smoothed everything over with Beron.
– Rhys gives Cass and Nesta the HOW, and has planned them the most outrageous mating ceremony known to Face kind.
– Nesta visits her father’s grave with her sisters and Nyx.