Every Yule, Sir Alaric van Dyson returns to the enchanting village of Storybrooke for the famed honeysuckle and birchsap cookies sold at Willow’s Apothecary. For eleven years he has roamed as a knight and upheld his duty to the realm. To protect the innocent and bring justice to those who cannot defend themselves.

Now a third-year herbalist apprentice, Mila is finally trusted to harvest the rare and dangerous mooncap mushrooms beneath the Yule moon. When Alaric arrives for his yearly visit, the two find themselves thrown together in the winter forest—and into the path of something far more dangerous than the cold.

Mila has been taught to see the wild differently—to believe that even the darkest creatures have their place in the Goddess’s turning wheel.

As the two are drawn closer together, the handsome brooding knight and his opposing beliefs become impossible to ignore. And this year, Alaric’s hunt will bring him dangerously close to both the creature he has sworn to kill and the woman who is slowly, and rather inconveniently making a home in his heart.

Alaric may have to choose between the oath that brought him to Storybrooke and the woman who might finally give him a reason to stay.

As the Yule feast begins and the fires burn brighter, Alaric discovers that the most dangerous thing of all might just be falling in love.