Introduction: For the first time in her life, Caley Reid has a home. Not just any home, a home filled with magic, ghosts, fairies, and other wonders that she never dared dream were real.For the first time, she has real friends, some close enough that she considers them family. Sure, many of them aren't actually human, but what does that matter? And she's part of a community that that welcomed her with open arms and made sure she knew she had support if she needed it.But home, family, and community come with responsibilities, and nobody can adequately explain to her what those really are. Some of those responsibilities seem straightforward: protect her home, Oakwood Hall, and the neighboring village of Oakwood, where a fair percentage of the small population are related to her by blood or marriage. Others are nebulous and confusing: being a bridge between the mundane world and the magical one, and taking up her family's traditional work as a neutral party for mediations and negotiations. And some are new to everyone: guiding the growing clan of fairies who asked for her protection; dealing with the supposedly friendly International Consortium of Organized Arcana, who have enslaved the remains of a clan of dusk foxes who used to be vassals of her family; or doing an apparently large favor for Oberon, Lord of the Seelie Court of the Sidhe. Those she'll just have to figure out as she goes鈥?uthor's Note: This is the second book in the Tales of Oakwood Hall series. You should probably read that one first...you can find it here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/49984/tales-of-oakwood-hall-book-1-nexus...