Niamh, a young and beautiful woman of the fields and forests, arrives with her family at the late-summer Lughnasa Fair. She hopes she might find a husband there and meets Bryan, one of the king's finest men. But like other young warriors, Bryan is interested in a romance only for the duration of the fair – or, at best, a Fair Marriage lasting just a year. Then the Lughnasa Fair is disrupted by a malevolent puca, a fey creature resembling a black pony and bent on destruction and revenge. It will fall to Niamh to contend with the puca and help Bryan face it, if he can, before it is too late for all of them. NOTE: Battlefield violence. Some scenes of encounters between consenting adults over the age of 21. This book was first published by Dorchester in 2004. It has been re-edited by the author and given a new cover, but is the same story as the original novel. No part of this work was created using artificial intelligence (AI) software of any kind. Each book in the Celtic Journeys series tells a complete story, so they may be read in any order.