Golden Flower Reeds. Uncollected Anthology: Equinox, #40

The equinox marks a balance of light and dark.and the return of the elves. Abrahm Reed hates the equinoxes with the power of a thousand suns. Not just because each equinox marks the period when day and night balance and the gateway between elfland and the human realm opens. Not just because the beautifully deadly elves should never be allowed around humans. But because every equinox, his father demands his presence.
As a half elf, half human, Abrahm moves between both worlds without restriction. Yet the alien elf realm has always rubbed him wrong. He feels more human and more comfortable in the mundane world. One of the many reasons his elf father hates him. But something feels different this equinox. Off. Wrong. More wrong than usual. Stepping through the portal into elfland cuts Abrahm off from everything safe, everything he knows back in Boston.
Trapping him in a land of magic and death. Where even the most beautiful flowers prove treacherous. And survival is never guaranteed. Enter Kat Simons' richly disorienting and mysterious urban fantasy where the portal between realms marks a line between the safe, mundane human world and the deadly beauty of elfland. Where not even the son of an elf lord is safe.