A Court of Mist and Fury

World Info

A Court of Mist and Fury opens three months after Amarantha’s defeat Under the Mountain. Tamlin killed Amarantha, and the seven High Lords have had their powers restored after forty-nine years under her control.

Prythian’s courts are rebuilding, but Amarantha’s creatures still roam the lands. The wall between the mortal and faerie realms still stands. The King of Hybern, who backed Amarantha, remains a threat. His ambitions towards the mortal lands are unresolved, and Jurian’s finger bone and eye are missing.

Feyre was resurrected by all seven High Lords, Made into High Fae, and now lives at the Spring Court, engaged to Tamlin.

Books in the A Court of Thorns and Roses Series

Book 1: A Court of Thorns and Roses

Book 2: A Court of Mist and Fury

Book 3: A Court of Wings and Ruin

Book 4: A Court of Frost and Starlight

Book 5: A Court of Silver Flames

Book 6: A Court of Thorns and Roses 6 — COMING SOON (October 2026)

Book 6: A Court of Thorns and Roses 7 — COMING SOON (January 2027)

Characters

Feyre Archeron: Newly Made High Fae, living at the Spring Court.
Tamlin: High Lord of the Spring Court, Feyre’s fiancé.
Rhysand: High Lord of the Night Court. Holds a bargain with Feyre from Under the Mountain.
Lucien Vanserra: Tamlin’s emissary and Feyre’s friend at the Spring Court.
Ianthe: High Priestess at the Spring Court.
Morrigan (Mor): Rhysand’s cousin, member of the Night Court’s Inner Circle.
Cassian: Illyrian warrior, commander of Rhysand’s armies.
Azriel: Illyrian spymaster, Rhysand’s shadowsinger.
Amren: Ancient being in a High Fae body, advisor to Rhysand.
Tarquin: High Lord of the Summer Court.
Nesta Archeron: Feyre’s eldest sister, living in the mortal lands.
Elain Archeron: Feyre’s middle sister, living in the mortal lands.
Ianthe: High Priestess attached to the Spring Court.

Other Characters

The King of Hybern: Ruler of Hybern, working to break the wall and reclaim the mortal lands.
Jurian: A human commander from the ancient war, soul-bound into Amarantha’s ring for five centuries.
Keir: Steward of the Hewn City and Mor’s father.
Alis: Feyre’s former Spring Court handmaid. A Urisk faerie.
The Mortal Queens: Six human rulers who govern the mortal lands from across the sea.
The Bone Carver: An ancient entity imprisoned beneath the faerie Prison.
The Weaver: An ancient, powerful creature living in the heart of Prythian’s forests.

Recap Summary

Three months after Amarantha’s defeat, Feyre is vomiting through nightmares every night at the Spring Court manor. She is engaged to Tamlin, and the wedding is weeks away. Tamlin refuses to let her roam beyond the estate, citing lingering danger. A High Priestess, Ianthe, has become his closest adviser, and she insists the bride of a High Lord does not need to learn to fight; training would draw other High Lords’ attention to Feyre’s new powers and invite questions Tamlin does not want asked.
On the wedding day, Feyre freezes and cannot bring herself to walk down the aisle. Rhysand appears, invokes the bargain from Under the Mountain, and takes her to his mountain estate and returns to the Spring Court after the week.

At the Spring Court, the Tithe arrives: a formal taxation where the court’s subjects present their offerings. A water-wraith cannot pay, and Tamlin denies her mercy. Feyre follows her out and gives the wraith her own jewellery. When Feyre discusses with Tamlin about the restrictions placed around her, his temper snaps; his power detonates and shreds the study. She instinctively raises a physical shield of hardened air. Tamlin begs forgiveness and promises to do better.

On another visit to the Night Court, Rhys shares with Feyre that he believes the King of Hybern is planning to reclaim the mortal lands, and that Amarantha was only a test run. Each time Rhysand collects her for the next monthly visit, he notices her deterioration. She is thin, withdrawn, and barely speaks.

Back at the Spring Court, Tamlin and Lucien leave to deal with a threat, and Tamlin seals the manor with a protective shield to keep Feyre safe. Alone and locked in, she loses control, wrapping herself in darkness. Mor arrives, shatters Tamlin’s shield, and carries Feyre across the Spring Court border for Rhysand to winnow them away. Feyre wakes at his mountain estate and decides she is not going back.

Rhysand takes Feyre to Velaris, a city hidden from the rest of Prythian for five thousand years. She meets Cassian, Azriel, and Amren. Rhys explains his court and the performance he shows the world to protect Velaris and the people inside it. He reveals that Under the Mountain, he focused all his power on shielding Velaris for fifty years and became Amarantha’s lover to keep her from looking further. He offers Feyre work, and she begins to see that the Night Court is not what the rest of the world believes.
As part of their effort to counter Hybern, Rhysand takes Feyre to the Prison, an island where ancient beings are held inside a mountain. Amren was once imprisoned there herself. The Bone Carver appears to Feyre as a boy and tells them the Cauldron’s three feet were cleaved from its base millennia ago and hidden at temples now being pillaged, confirming their suspicions of Hybern’s plans. The only counter is the Book of Breathings, forged from the same ore: one half held by the High Lord of Summer, the other by the mortal queens. The Book can only be wielded by something that was Made.

For the next task, Rhys takes Feyre to the Weaver’s Wood in the heart of Prythian. She must enter the Weaver’s cottage alone and retrieve an object by feel, proving she can identify the spelled Book when the time comes. Feyre finds the object and barely escapes the Weaver alive. After the success, Rhysand writes to the Summer Court requesting a visit to pursue the first half of the Book.

The Inner Circle travels to the mortal lands to visit Feyre’s sisters and request the Archeron estate as neutral ground for a meeting with the mortal queens. While they are there, Cassian and Nesta clash. Feyre trains with Rhys in the snow, learning to summon and control whatever fragments of the seven High Lords’ power she carries. Rhys uses Feyre as bait during her training session to draw out the Attor, then captures it for interrogation.

Their request to visit the Summer Court is answered, and Rhys, Feyre, and Amren travel to Adriata as guests of High Lord Tarquin. He is young, progressive, and rebuilding his court after Amarantha’s occupation. Feyre and Tarquin remember each other from Under the Mountain, though they were never formally introduced. Varian, Tarquin’s cousin and captain of his guard, watches Amren carefully.

As she flirts her way into a being given a tour of the cities treasure banks, Tarquin and Feyre talk about what they would change in Prythian He wants to dismantle the power gap between High Fae and lesser faeries. Inbetween dinners and meetings, Feyre spends her free hours walking the city, trying to sense the Book, but finds nothing.

On the third evening, Feyre spots a half-submerged stone temple on a tidal causeway, visible only at low tide. At dinner, Feyre uses her daemati ability to break through Tarquin’s mental shields and reads his thoughts as she asks him about it. A few nights later, Rhys flies Amren and Feyre to the temple. They descend to a submerged chamber where the Book sits in a lead box on a pedestal, whispering. Feyre mimics Tarquin’s power to lift it. The Book calls her a liar, and the door slams shut. The tide turns and the chamber starts to fill up with water until water-wraiths pull them to the surface. Tarquin discovers the theft and sends blood rubies to all three: a death threat from the Summer Court.

Back in Velaris, Amren takes the Book and begins decoding it. She finds the language comes from a world she recognised before this body — a book that could also set her free of this world and return her home. After further correspondence from Rhysand, the mortal queens agree to meet. Five of the six winnow into the Archeron estate to hear the Inner Circle present the case. The queens are unconvinced, refuse to hand over their half of the Book, and leave.

To persuade the queens, Rhys takes Feyre to the Hewn City, the Court of Nightmares, to retrieve the Veritas: a truth-telling orb. During the flight, they are attacked with ash arrows, but cannot track their assailants in time. At the Hewn City, Azriel lifts the Veritas while Rhys and Feyre create a distraction.

A few days later, the Night Court celebrates Starfall, an annual event where spirits cross the sky on a yearly migration to somewhere no one can name. The next day, they relocate to an Illyrian war-camp in the northern mountains as the earlier attack reveals that someone is tracking Rhys’s magic.

During training at the camp, Rhys tells Feyre the history between him and Tamlin. They were friends once, but Tamlin’s father, threatened by Rhys’s power, took his sons (Tamlin among them) into the Illyrian wilderness and killed Rhys’s mother and sister. Rhys and his father retaliated, and Tamlin killed Rhys’s father, making them both High Lords.

During training in wilderness far away from the camp, Lucien appears with four Spring Court sentinels. He says he has been hunting Feyre for two months. She winnows clear of his grip and manifests Illyrian wings to send a clear message as Rhys arrives as she tells Lucien she is not going back.

Feyre and Rhys stop at an inn and share a bed. During the flight back, they are ambushed with poisoned ash arrows, tracked via the magic Rhys used near Lucien the day before. The arrows shred his wings, and he flings Feyre clear with his power before going down. She follows the captors’ trail to a cave and kills them with short bursts of winnowing, ash arrows, and daggers.

Seeing the poison is not healing, Feyre summons the Suriel for answers, and it tells her how to heal him. The Suriel lets slip that Rhys is her mate, and that he has known since before she came to Velaris. She heals Rhys and gets him back to the camp. Furious that he hid it from her, she asks Mor to take her away.

Mor takes her to a mountain cabin, and Feyre processes what she’s learned, working through her fury and confusion. Rhys arrives at the cabin. After he tells her his side, Feyre accepts the mating bond.

In a second meeting with the queens, only two attend: the eldest and the golden-haired one. Rhys shows them Velaris through the Veritas orb, but they still refuse to help. The golden queen, Demetra, secretly leaves the second half of the Book behind with a note: a warning that the sixth queen was not simply unwell.

After receiving both halves, Amren works to decode them. Hybern forces assault Velaris, and the wards are breached by the Cauldron’s power. During the battle, Feyre kills the Attor. Amren cracks the Book’s code and learns that the spell to nullify the Cauldron requires Feyre to speak it in its presence, as only something Made can invoke it.

The Inner Circle arms and departs for Hybern to use the Book against the Cauldron directly. Feyre, Mor, Cassian, and Azriel fight through the castle and reach it, but when Feyre attempts to invoke the spell she is overwhelmed and it fails. Before they can regroup, Jurian appears with soldiers, and Rhys winnows in to join them. As the King of Hybern appears and takes them to another room, Tamlin and Lucien walk through; Tamlin has made a deal with the King of Hybern, offering passage through Spring Court lands and the Night Court’s deaths in exchange for Feyre’s return, believing Rhys has had her under mental control the entire time. The king brings out Nesta and Elain, captured and delivered to Hybern after Ianthe (acting outside Tamlin’s arrangement) betrayed their location, and forces both sisters into the Cauldron, remaking them as High Fae against their will.

Nesta fights with such force that she takes something from the Cauldron as she is Made. When Elain emerges, a mating bond with Lucien snaps into place.

Seeing that they are losing, Feyre secretly uses her Day Court power to shatter the castle’s wards. She pretends to break from Rhys’s supposed mental hold, staggers towards Tamlin, and begs him to bring her home. The king dissolves the bargain tattoo and mating bond. Mor winnows away with Nesta and Elain as Rhys seizes Cassian and Azriel.

When they return to the townhouse, Rhys reveals that the king broke only the bargain, not the mating bond; it remains intact and hidden. Feyre is now a spy in the Spring Court, with a direct line to Rhys. He tells the Inner Circle that the night before they left for Hybern, he and Feyre found a priestess, and he made her High Lady of the Night Court. A second tattoo is hidden beneath her glove.

Tamlin lands Feyre back at the Spring Court manor. She smiles through her tears, telling him she never thought she would see it again.

Next in Series

Feyre is embedded in the Spring Court as a spy with an active mating bond to Rhys. The wall between mortal and faerie lands is intact, but Hybern’s invasion is imminent.