The Winding Road

If you believe that magic lurks just around the corner... If you love the tales spun by  Charles De Lint, T. Kingfisher, Garth Nix, and Holly Black...  

Meet Tom, the Rhymer of Ash Grove.

Welcome to Ash Grove, Oregon, a Shakespeare obsessed university town filled with artists, summer tourists, and fae creatures that stalk the streets at night...

Enter Tom Learmont, mild-mannered poet and professor of literature. Tom's life seems perfectly ordinary… But Tom has a secret not even their best friend knows.

Tom lost years—decades—trapped in Elfland. Underhill. Faery. Whatever you want to call it. Very few escape from there, and those that do? Well, it remains to be seen if Underhill ever releases its grip on heart and soul.

Tom has mostly adjusted to a quiet, introverted life back in the human realms, with Underhill a distant memory. Until one day, sitting on the porch swing of Tom's hundred-something year old Craftsman house... She appears. And yes, that's She with a capital S.

The Queen of Elfland has returned.

And not just the Queen. The powers from Underhill are back, the crows call out in warning, and Tom and their friends must face the gathering storm, and prepare to fight for their lives… and all of Ash Grove.