Demoncurse has left Nim and Newt to canoodle as newlyweds. Now back in his original form as Alaric, he's flirting with every girl he crosses paths with in his search to understand love. Never satisfied he moves on until he comes to the Fairy Tale Inn. There he finds someone he needs, and that's a nice change. He quickly forgets himself in mundane human's work, until he realizes that he's fallen in love with a human for real. A human who's an aura-mage of an ancient and well respected clan that he named himself after, a member of the Celestial Council, and very possibly already engaged.

But she's not just fulfilling her duties by maintaining the Fairy Tale Inn. She's hunting for Jack The Green Man, whom her superiors believe is killing women after seducing them. Does Alaric confess to being the spirit they're looking for and suffer the consequences of a crime he didn't commit, or will Sabina believe in him the way he's learned to believe in her? Will he be able to save her from the real murderer, and more importantly, from himself when he tries?