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She immediately becomes the target of the king's wrath and of his best trackers, for no females have ever bonded with a battle sylph.

When the summoning goes terribly wrong, Solie finds herself bonded to a battle sylph sworn to protect and please her at any cost. While fleeing an arranged marriage, young maiden Solie is kidnapped and marked to become the next sacrifice needed to enslave another battle sylph. As the battler comes through to claim his waiting queen, she is murdered and before the enraged creature can return to his realm, he is forcibly bound by the girl's murderer, compelled to silence and forced to obey his new master's every whim. Humans take advantage of the battlers' craving for love and use a virginal sacrifice to lure an unsuspecting sylph toward the portal that separates their worlds. I shouldn’t have worried there is an element of fated romance to the book, but at its heart the book is a solid fantasy set in an intriguing world.In an otherworldly dimension where only one battle sylph can become the Queen's chosen consort, the thousands of remaining battlers who protect her hive are left longing for a mate of their own. That whole destined love or love at first sight thing bothers me a bit, so I was worried about what type of book this was going to be. Heyou is very alpha male and him and Solie have that whole drawn to love each other through fate thing going on. Solie is bound to Heyou, the battle sylph. Now Solie is on the run from the law with a new Battle Sylph by her side she has no idea what to do…as far as she knows a woman has never bonded a battle sylph before. Solie ends up escaping and accidentally binds the Battle Sylph to her. On the way Solie is kidnapped and brought to the castle to be used as a sacrifice in the summoning of a Battle Sylph. Solie wants more than an old man for a husband and runs away from her arranged marriage seeking help from her aunt. Solie is an independent woman in a nation where females are treated as the weaker sex.

I was worried that based on the beginning it would be too much of a romance but was surprised at what a great world McDonald created and at how far-reaching the plot ended up being. I got an egalley of this book to review through Netgalley(dot)com. The second book is The Shattered Sylph and the third book, Queen of the Sylphs releases on September 23rd. This the first book in the Sylph series by McDonald.

Stand Alone or Series: 1st book in the Sylph series