Earl and Fairy

Lydia Carlton is a fairy doctor who can see and communicate with fairies. When she embarks on a journey to visit her father in London, she’s kidnapped by a young man named Edgar Ashenbert who introduces himself as an earl and requests Lydia’s aid in searching for a treasured sword that will prove his status. Although she finds his story dubious, Lydia agrees to work with him—if only because he’s her first real client. Meanwhile, rumors of a heinous burglary abound, and the culprit seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to Edgar...

Fairy doctor Lydia Carlton has been hired by Lord Edgar Ashenbert at his London residence, where she’s forever caught between his smooth talk and constant advances. But Lydia has bigger things to worry about when she’s attacked in the park one day by a culprit resembling the Fogman, a most ominous fairy. Just as she makes it back to Edgar’s, she is visited by a lone woman seeking help to find the baron’s daughter. Could the Fogman be related to the case? And what of the mysterious Fairy’s Egg that is said to have been lost to time?

Fairy doctor Lydia has been hired by Edgar, a smooth-talking earl with a tattered past. Her ability to see and talk to fairies proves invaluable when his London estate is visited by a tiny fairy of the field. The fairy has come to fetch the Blue Knight Earl—Edgar—to marry the Fairy Queen. Unfortunately, the moon-embedded ring to complete the proposal has been stolen! Not only that, but Lydia has to deal with the reappearance of a wild kelpie from her hometown—one who also has his sights set on marriage...

The tabloids are full of rumors of scandals surrounding Edgar, but Lydia is insistent that she doesn’t care. Their engagement was nothing more than a temporary measure to get out of her agreement to forsake the human world for that of the fairies, after all, and to leave behind the wild and unpredictable kelpie. Edgar, however, seems to be taking it much more seriously—as seriously as a man like him can, anyway. But with the arrival of the latest story, in which he has allegedly found himself a lover in the form of a ghost, things start to unfold in a very unexpected way.

Much to her chagrin, fairy doctor Lydia has failed to convince her employer, Earl Ashenbert, to call off their engagement. As much as she tries to see through his flirtations, he still seems to have her wrapped around his little finger. The appearance of the moonstone’s steward, a small fairy called a coblynau, doesn’t help—it turns out he’s a strong supporter of their union! Meanwhile, Edgar comes into possession of a cursed black diamond that is said to bring its owner great misfortune. Just how does it tie into his revenge against the Prince?

Fairies may kidnap a human child and replace it with their own offspring: a changeling. Now, it seems that such an incident took place in one of the Blue Knight Earl’s territories, so Lydia, Edgar’s fairy doctor and reluctant fiancée, sets off by herself to investigate. Meanwhile, the earl is visited by some old pirate friends whom he would have preferred to have stayed in his past. They tell him that their companion, Betty, has been kidnapped by someone claiming to be the Blue Knight Earl, but this is the first Edgar’s heard of it...

Fairy doctor Lydia Carlton has returned to her hometown in Scotland for a well-earned rest. Taking an extended Christmas vacation was a fine excuse, but the truth is that she feared falling in love with her employer and would-be fiancé, Edgar Ashenbert, the Earl of Ibrazel. The history of his title is a complex affair, and when she hears a mysterious rumor about the earl’s forefather, Lydia heads to the Isle of Mannan to investigate. Meanwhile, a strange girl appears before Paul, Edgar’s artist friend in London, and it soon transpires that she isn’t exactly human...

Lydia Carlton is a girl who can see and talk to fairies. After being hired by Lord Edgar Ashenbert as a fairy doctor, she found herself engaged to him. Though it was supposed to be a measure to protect them against some persistent fairies, Edgar is taking it far more seriously than that. This volume comprises a number of short stories from the early days of Lydia’s employment. There are also tales set before the pair met, including Lydia’s first encounter with Kelpie and her first experience with heartbreak.

Lord Edgar Ashenbert is more eager than ever to marry his fairy doctor, Lydia Carlton. Having developed a deeper understanding of him, Lydia has found herself unable to spurn him the way she did before. Meanwhile, London has been plagued by a series of gruesome murders that seem to be linked to Edgar’s mortal enemy: the Prince. For the sake of Lydia’s safety, the earl insists that she come to stay with him at his estate. And thus the two suddenly end up living under the same roof...

Edgar has entrusted Lydia to Kelpie in order to protect her from the Prince. Although she promised to marry Edgar just before they parted, the water horse’s magic has robbed her of her memories of him. Meanwhile, a mysterious disease spreads through London’s East End. It is said that the only way to survive it is to board the Ark, a mysterious vessel moored near London Bridge. Edgar cannot help but suspect the Prince’s involvement...