Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales is the third book in the series, following Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries and Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands. At the start of the series, Emily is a quiet, prickly dryadologist (expert in Faeries) who thinks she has trouble expressing her emotions. Wendell is a playful, but sometimes irresponsible Faerie prince, faking academic credentials to work as a dryadologist at Cambridge. Over the course of the series, Emily and Wendell fall in love and grow as characters. While Emily discovers new reserves of heroism within her, Wendell transforms into a responsible, true leader of his people. Emily and Wendell live in a world that corresponds to the early-20th-century real world, except that in the series, Faeries or magical creatures are real. Dryadology is a valid and popular discipline, and scholars often go to inordinate lengths, risking their safety, to get close to their fascinating but capricious subjects. Co-existing with real-world locations such as Ireland and Scandinavia, Faerie realms can usually be accessed through doors and portals.

In the first book, Emily arrives in the remote Ljoslandic village of Hrafnsvik to research the Hidden Ones, the mysterious local faeries about whom little is known in academic circles.