Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands: the charming light academia Sunday Times bestseller (Emily Wilde Series)

Emily Wilde is a brilliant scholar of faerie folklore who has spent years studying the mysterious Hidden Folk. After the events of the first book, she has completed much of her groundbreaking research, but her life is about to become considerably more complicated.

Her academic rival, Wendell Bambleby, is not merely an irritatingly handsome scholar. He is actually an exiled faerie king, hiding from his murderous mother and desperately searching for a door that will take him back to his kingdom.

Fortunately—or unfortunately for Emily—her latest academic project may provide exactly what he needs.

Emily begins researching a map of the realms of faerie, hoping to understand the mysterious network of doors that connect the mortal world with the faerie realms. Her research leads her and Wendell to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where they believe they may discover the door to Wendell's lost kingdom.

But the journey isn't simply an academic field trip.

There are dangerous faeries hiding in the forests, mysterious magical doors to decipher, new friendships for Emily to navigate, and the ever-present threat posed by Wendell's family.

And while Emily is very good at solving scholarly mysteries, she has considerably more difficulty understanding her own feelings for Wendell.