** spoiler alert ** 
 Solie, a young woman who's been taught to take care of herself, is kidnapped by the king's men and taken to be a virgin sacrifice in a ritual designed to ensnare a battle sylph to the crown prince's service. But Solie is having none of it and manages to bind the sylph to her, instead. As the first woman in living memory with a battle sylph, and since the crown prince was killed in her escape, she's a target for the king and all the king's men with battle sylphs of their own. As she and her sylph, Heyou, escape, they find themselves part of a community of people with elemental sylphs who have no home and nowhere to go. In helping to rebuild the community, they become allies and Solie becomes the queen of the adoptive hive of sylphs, including three more battle sylphs. So when the king and his sylphs attack, the Community is ready for them. 
 This wasn't a bad book, though it wasn't quite what I was expecting. I had expected pretty straightforward fantasy but got fantasy-romance. It was jarring at first, but once I adjusted my expectations it was fine. However, for a novel set in a high fantasy, medievalesque world, it contained quite a few modern slang words, phrases, and colloquialisms, which were also jarring and harmful to my immersion in the world and story. 
 Otherwise, the novel was entertaining, definitely brain candy. I enjoyed it, but it's generally not my thing, and I most likely won't pick up the rest of the series.