Avery Payne has one goal in this to pursue a Masters of Music at Carnegie Mellon. Years of training and no small amount of talent have led her to her goal, and admission should be a piece of cake. Except, Carnegie is an integrated campus, and Avery has lived a sheltered, human-only life.To gain the experience she needs, Avery takes a job as the Assistant Director of Elkwater Music Camp - the only human and inhuman band camp in the nation. She has sixteen weeks between her and her Carnegie dream. Sixteen weeks at a band camp in the Monongahela National Forest...sixteen weeks to have her world turned upside down by a curly-haired faun.~Ever since the faun fell from the fae world to this one, Cricket has begged her family to move among the humans and into a permanent home. When property sales force them from the woods, Cricket vows to bring back her cousin, the only faun to have integrated with the broader human world, and convince the family to do just that.But a monster lurks in the Monongahela National Forest, chasing her over ridgelines and into the heart of Elkwater Music Camp. Her cousin is gone, the roads are closed, and the red-headed Assistant Director can't seem to leave her alone.When the monster begins threatening Elkwater Music Camp, Cricket and Avery band together, discovering the truth behind the land grabs in Green Bank and an undeniable attraction to each other.