A girl makes a secret sacrifice to the faerie king in this lush New York Times bestselling fantasy by author Holly Black In the woods is a glass coffin. It rests on the ground,and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives…. Hazel and her brotherBenlive in Fairfoldwhere humans and the Folk exist side by side. Since they were childrenHazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffinthat he is a prince and they are valiant knightspretending their prince would be different from the other faeriesthe ones who made cruel bargainslurked in the shadows of treesand doomed tourists. But as Hazel grows upshe puts aside those stories. Hazel knows the horned boy will never wake. Until one dayhe does… As the world turns upside downHazel has to become the knight she once pretended to be. The Darkest Part of the Forest is bestselling author Holly Black’s triumphant return to the opulentenchanting faerie tales that launched her YA career.