by Charles de Lint

Once there was an ordinary city... but behind the everyday streets there lies a Faerie world, where trolls and goblins lurk under motorway bridges -- and giants walk the earth. Once there was an ordinary girl... who didn't believe in giants. But now Jacky Rowan's been marked for destruction, and sent on a quest that only a fool would dare. Once there were no more heroes... until one mortal woman set out to save the city -- human and otherworldly alike -- from a nightmarish demise.

A Fairy Tale Series book