Where We Go at Night

by Ikwo Ntekim · 2026

To name a thing is to see it, and no one can see the folk if they don't want to be seen. Trixie Gerwin's hometown of Wood's Crossing is mind-numbingly dull--but she knows that a beguiling world of fae and magic lurks in the shadows. Growing up, it felt to Trixie like her Pops spent more time with them--those creatures, Mama used to say--than in their own world, with her. When Trixie sneaks home past curfew the night of graduation, she expects Pops to give her the usual talking-to. Instead, her world is shattered: She witnesses his brutal murder in a moment so sudden, so uncanny, so inhuman, that she's powerless to stop it. The townies, willfully blind to what surrounds them, will blame wild animals. They'll call it an accident, a tragedy. They'll expect Trixie to move on. But Trixie saw the unknowable thing that really did this. And she won't let the fae get away with it. Pulled into a war full of intrigue, deceit, and temptation, Trixie will stop at nothing in her fight for vengeance--for Pops, for Wood's Crossing. No matter what it takes.