The Great and Terrible Pan - Duology

Eighteen-year-old Emmalynn Cassan is grateful for her body of scars. In a country where perceived beauty lands villagers in the backs of slave wagons, any flaw is coveted. When soldiers arrive to collect on the King’s human tax on beauty, Emmalynn’s scars aren’t enough to save her. She flees into the murky Elder Woods, a place of forgotten magic and dangerous fairy tales. In the dark forest, she meets a creature of lore, known as The Great and Terrible Pan. All her life, Emmalynn has listened to stories about Pan, the sole survivor of the ancient fairy folk race. She’s not prepared for the childish, selfish fairy prince who flies without wings and hates to be bored.  

Pan gleefully whisks her away to his forest settlement of peculiar, enchanted beast-fairies to serve as a mortal servant. Deep in the Elder Woods, Emmalynn searches for an escape back home. But The Great and Terrible Pan has quite the secret. The fairy folk are not extinct as the humans have believed. Their banishment, as well as the King’s tax on beauty, are wound together in a tangled web with an ancient curse at the center. Outwitting Pan while avoiding romantic attachment is enough of a battle for shy Emmalynn. But when it becomes clear only she can save her village and maybe even her entire broken country from its own curse, she must stand between an army of immortals and the greedy King before war ravages the only family she has left. 

The Great and Terrible Pan is the first book in a planned duology. I am currently querying literary agents to seek representation.