The Hasty Visitor's Guide to American Fairy Hills

Being half-fairy is no defense against a mid-life crisis. Hazel Greenspan is dissatisfied with her law career in Boston and frustrated by her love life. Although her father is an oak fairy, one of a handful of exiles getting by in the US however they can, magic has only been a minor part of her world. Then a dying troll interrupts the first second date she has had in years to give her a phoenix egg.

That the egg is burning hot is a problem. That Hazel has a magical obligation to protect the thing until it hatches is a bigger one. Explaining all of this to her date, Teresa, turns out to be the easy part. Wherever the phoenix hatches is going to get a thousand years of good fortune. That event is just three weeks away, and news gets around fast. Exiles in search of revenge want the egg. The old fairy courts that exiled them want the egg. Everybody wants the egg, and they won't let any mortals or half-mortals get in the way.

Hazel has spent the past year increasingly dubious about all of her choices, and now that she and Teresa are on the run, she has to make a lot of themabout her magic, about her life, about Teresaand about where they should let the phoenix hatch.

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