She must hold onto him as he is transformed into a variety of beasts, or fire, or other dangers. To rescue him, she must find the faeries at midnight on Halloween and pull him from horse as the faerie troop passes by.
When she finds herself pregnant with his child, she seeks him out again and learns he is a mortal man, captive to the faeries and at risk for sacrifice as their tribute to hell.
Tam Lin is an old fairy ballad from the borderlands of Scotland, concerning a mortal woman who encounters a mysterious man in a forbidden forest. You can read an excerpt over at Tor books. Publisher's weekly rates it as a Best Book of summer 2016. New retelling out this month! Kat Howard's Roses and Rot is out this May.
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