Jousting contests, human chess matches, lords and ladies and beggars... a traveling Renaissance fair has come to Sunnydale. The fair may seem terminally uncool, but Buffy and her friends are charmed anyway. Especially by a sad-eyed boy named Roland, who serves as the court jester.

Unfortunately, the people from the fair are not the only visitors in Sunnydale. Roaming the countryside are nasty little creatures with a taste for flesh: the dark faerie. They are minions of the Wild Hunt, servants of the evil Erl King.

Buffy's challenge is to annihilate the king and his murderous horde. But the path to his destruction leads straight to Roland, who is not quite human... and destined to become the Slayer's mortal adversary.

This is volume 6 in Buffy the Vampire Slayer .

There are 336 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Simon & Schuster .

Nancy Holder is the author of a number of popular and highly successful tie-in novels. Chris Golden and Tom Sniegoski are regular contributors to the monthly Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic book.