"As a girl, Fenella Scarborough was stricken with a fiendish curse that doomed her to remain in the faerie realm for all eternity. Now, hundreds of years later, she is given a chance to escape, and to be free--finally--to die. But breaking the curse requires her to perform three acts of destruction against her family. The consequences could be dire. But if she doesn't do the unthinkable, how will she find a way out for herself, her family, and the man who has stolen her heart?"-- From back cover.<p>"Fenella, the first of cursed Scarborough girls, is challenged to accomplish three tasks of destruction against her family in order to finally leave her miserable life of purgatory in the faerie realm and return to the human world"--