<p><em>For the ten generations since the evil first came to Woodcutter's Grim the Guardians have sworn an oath to protect the town from the childhood horrors that lurk in the black woods. Without them the town would be defenseless...and the terrors would escape to the world at large.</em></p><p> </p><p>The son of shape-shifting goats William Gruff escaped a dire fate when his family is bound to the evil pervading Woodcutter's Grim the only shelter for supernatural creatures. Adaryn Azar a legendary phoenix changes his lonely life. But a happily-ever-after may be impossible when the hunter</p><p>who's tracked her for centuries finds her again. Dying and resurrecting would mean forfeiting the life growing inside her. Unfathomably Woodcutter's Grim may be the only safe place left.</p>