With his father the fairy king demanding he find a mate, Prince Aislan is uptight, unsettled. He swears he'll never put himself in a position as to give his heart to any female. Until he meets a human who possesses the tenderness for which he longs.

Tina doesn't believe in wishes or fairy tales, so the last thing she expects to find is a man in the moonlight. One who seems to know exactly what she needs, shows her the magic world from where he comes, and makes her dreams come true...if only for a brief moment in time.

"Mmm. Garlic honey chicken. My favorite." Tina slowly chewed her food, savoring the spicy sweetness.

Sheridan laughed. "I know, that's why I got a double order of it." She scooped up some rice on her fork. "What'd you do today?"

"Went for a walk. Got bit by a giant bug from hell."

Her sister frowned. "Where? Did you have a reaction?"

She shook her head. She'd been concerned about that, too, seeing she was allergic to bee stings. But she'd had no reaction to the bite other than a little tenderness and a little blood. "What the heck kind of bugs do you have out here, anyway? The thing was huge. It looked like some strange hybrid between a dragonfly and a hummingbird."

Sheridan's fork stopped midway to her mouth. "That bit you?"

She nodded. "Yeah, it attacked me. Then this other one, even bigger but royal blue instead of red like the other one, chased away the one that bit me."

A small smile curved her sister's lips, and then she licked them and shrugged. "I dunno. Sounds a little weird to me. Are you sure you're not making up stories again? You used to do that as a kid."

Rolling her eyes, she forked another bite of chicken. "I'm not making it up. I have the wound to prove it." She shoved her hair behind her ear and pointed to the sore spot.

"Tell me what it looked like?"

"The size of a hummingbird with a hummingbird body. But it had dragonfly wings. Really lacy and shimmery in the sunshine. There was a dark red one, the one that bit me, and a blue one. Royal blue, like the color of that Escort I owned right out of high school."

Sheridan shrugged again as she took another bite of sweet and sour pork, but Tina didn't fall for the innocent act. She was lying.

"Tell me what the hell it was. Do I need to go get a shot or something? Am I now diseased and you don't want to tell me?" Her own words struck her so hard she sucked in a breath.

Sheridan didn't seem to notice because she burst out laughing. "No. You don't. But if I told you what it was, you'd think I was nuts."

"Tell me."

Her sister set down her fork and reached for her wine glass. She took a slow sip. "Fairies."

The laugh burst out of her, and she choked on her bite of chicken. Sheridan handed her the ice water glass from in front of her and waited until she stopped coughing and swiped her tearing eyes.

"I told you that you'd think I was nuts."

"You are nuts." She sniffed and then burst out laughing again. "I knew you shouldn't be living out here in the middle of nowhere by yourself. You've lost your mind."

Sheridan shoved her shoulder, but she laughed, too. "Fine. Don't believe me."

Shaking her head, she said, "I won't." Fairies. "Jeez, sis."

"I caught one a few years ago. That blue one. He comes around here often."

Another bout of laughter caught her. "Did he grant you three wishes?"

With a frown of annoyance, Sheridan's humor seemed to flee. "He's a fairy, not a genie. But he has kept my garden bug free since then."

"He is a bug." Tina shook her head. "What am I saying? It's a bug that I saw today, not a fairy. Since when do you believe in mystical little winged creatures? And you say I'm the one who makes up stories."

"Since I caught him and made a deal with him." She lifted her fork and speared a shrimp with more force than necessary.

"A deal? What kind of deal?" Her sister looked a little too serious about the subject.

"I was putting a pesticide on my roses because they were being destroyed by aphids. That big blue bug was hanging around, making a real nuisance of himself. He even landed in my hair at one point, and...pulled it." She shrugged and grinned. "I went into the house and got my butterfly net, wanting to catch it and get a good look at it, because it's different from anything I'd ever seen. Then went back to working on my flowers when I didn't see him. Not long and he was back. I grabbed the net and caught him."

"And then what?" Tina's imagination had never been this good. She had always fantasized and made up stories about her prince charming, not some little winged thing.

"When he wasn't flying around, you could see that he's like a little human. Arms, legs, and when he's not moving, his blue skin...well...it's more like human color but with this shimmery blue hue to it. He's very cute."

Tina made a face. Her sister really had lost it. "Did it talk to you?"

Sheridan shook her head. "No. I mean, his mouth moved, but I couldn't hear him. But then he flew over to my can of pesticide and kicked it. When I asked him if he was upset about the stuff, he nodded. So I told him if he could keep the aphids off my roses, I wouldn't use it anymore. He grinned and nodded." She chuckled. "I haven't had a problem with bugs since then, and I see him flitting around my roses quite often when I'm home during the day."

Tina glanced at the wine glass her sister raised to her lips. Had Sheridan started drinking to excess? She hadn't seen an overly large amount of alcohol in the cabin when she searched cabinets for a quick lunch earlier.

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