Her mother helps her escape to the Crossroads the very night her father begins proceedings to sell Lee to one of his companions as third wife in a pride. Lee was raised to be subservient, but her soul was screaming in agony with every moment in her household. Running toward a better option in life, a lioness finds herself right in the tiger’s clutches. He will hold her hand through the terror and help her to the other side. A clerical anomaly points him in the direction of the Crossroads, and it is a point of honour that he will keep Elenora alive.

Eric is in charge of the nightmares and their discharge of their duties. Five years’ worth of cursed nightmares are following Elly, and she will be lucky to make it out alive. After five more years, she is sent out on loan to the Crossroads, but leaving the court is dangerous. She will need them all as she goes from being a master musician to the court’s main entertainment. Years later, she has completed her training, and she has not only learned what she is capable of, but she has learned what she can withstand and her personal strengths. It will take a while before she actually meets her family. On her first day at the school, she learns what she is and what kind of magic runs in her family. The next thing she knew she was being whisked away to a private school that catered exclusively to the half-breeds left behind by fey who travelled in the human world. Her attempts to hide her ears and the change in her reality were foiled by class bullies.

Elly’s exposure as a half-fey was a shock to all around her.

Big Flight by Zenina Masters