Ms. Stepanich-Reidling brings to us the fifth volume in her series, The Faery Chronicles, providing us with yet another exhilarating exploration of the Faery Realm and encounters with a host of beings both of our world and that other country, wherein humans are quite considered the unique being. In this volume, we meet Kathleen MacNamarra, an American who lives between southern California and the west coast of Ireland, who becomes caught in an intricate web of the supernatural. Kathleen is accepted by the Sidhe, becoming a Faery Favored Mortal, only to find that though she gains great fame as a poet and painter, her involvement with them costs her the one thing in life she holds most dear, and this because of one careless statement made to Eire, an ancient queen, who chooses Kathleen as a Faery Ambassador in the mortal world. Ms. Stepanich-Reidling's story is so exhilarating and captivating, an incredible weaving of the human and Faery Realm, which draws us into altered time and space so quickly and completely that it becomes near impossible to put the book down.