War for the Oaks — Emma Bull

"TELL ME WHAT YOU HAVE FOUND."

The deep voice replied, "There is a woman who will do, I think. She makes music, the kind that moves heart and body. In another time, we would have found her long before, for that alone. Shall I bring her to show you?"

Eddi McCandry is lead singer in a rock 'n' roll band. Or at least she would be, if the band hadn't split up, if her boyfriend hadn't dumped her, if ...well, there's a lot of ifs. But her far-from-mundane life is about to be turned inside out, as she's drafted to fight in a war that's going on right now, just beyond the edge of sight, a half step away from where you're standing, a faerie war that needs a mortal to make it all too real ...