


Chaos and fighting ensues to try and get Nicodemus back. They come back to Emilie having kidnapped Nicodemus and tries to start a war between the vampires and the werewolves. But what adds to that emotion is that she finds out that she was used as a bargaining chip for Bastien to get to the Winter Courts she is upset with him but agrees to go with him to the winter court trusting him over her mother. She is excited and thrilled but is upset at her mother because she let her think she was dead for fourteen years and abandoned her with her father. She finally meets her mother and feels a mix of emotions about the reunion. She accepts the offer and they go back to the summer court. He tells her about whom her mother is and that she wants to meet her and if she is ready, she can see her. Bastien and Celine meet up and this is when he spills the beans to her about vampires, about the creatures that lurk in the night and of the fey. She is half ethereal so she cannot be manipulated by vampires as well as humans are. It is then when we realise that Celine is an ethereal which is why she is starting to get her memory back. In order to let him get to the Winter Court, she asks him to bring Celine to her. Celine is her daughter that she abandoned and now wants to reconnect with her. Her interest in him is because of Celine. Upon arriving, the fey of the summer court instantly capture them and escort them to the queen, as she is interested in him. So he and Arjun head to the summer court. But there is a snag in his plan, vampires are forbidden from entering the Winter Court of Sylvan through a portal but they are not forbidden from entering the Summer court and then travelling to the winter court from there. She instantly guesses it’s because he wants to be unmade and tells him of what she knows. He reads about a man called Sunan who lives in the Sylvan Wyld and asks Valeria about what she had heard of him.

Unbeknownst to Bastien that all of this is happening he goes searching for a way to undo what Celine had done and to become mortal again.
