The Lady of the Sorrows - The Bitterbynde Book 2 - Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Though her memory remains clouded by sorcery, Imrhien must take vital news directly to the King-Emperor of Caermelor. She hopes that there she may also find Thorn, the fearless ranger who has won her heart.

Since no commoner may approach the royal court, Imrhien must assume a new identity as 'Rohain', a noble visitor from the distant Sorrow Isles. The disguise helps her discover that the King and his rangers have in fact gone off to battle the Unseelie hordes, which have suddenly declared war against mortals.

While she awaits the King's return, the newcomer Rohain is trapped in her subterfuge, facing a court where treachery and deceit are as deadly as any eldritch peril.

As always, changes of fate and fortune occur, and for a brief while it seems Rohain's dream of happiness may be achieved. But her joy is short lived, for attacks by nightmare monsters of the Wild Hunt - led by the Unseelie Lord Huon - grow ever more frequent and brutal. And when evil forces lay siege to the royal sanctuary on a hidden mystic island, Rohain must accept a horrifying fact: she herself is the real target of these monstrous onslaughts; she is the one whom Huon is hunting. But she has no idea why.

To protect those she loves, the 'Lady of the Sorrows' must undertake a desperate quest to discover who she really is, and why an unhuman evil will destroy a world to find her. But the truth of Rohain's past is about to prove more incredible - and far more tragic - than anything she could possibly have imagined.