After coming home from a monotonous office job to the apartment where she lives alone, thirty-something Abigail Watson is having a tough day in a hard week in a rotten month, and don't even get her started on the year. Until that night when something wonderfully impossible shows up at her door and rings the bell insistently. You're not supposed to answer the door late at night to strangers who come knocking unannounced, right? Right. But Abigail does, Because how can you be scared of someone with translucent wings like those of a dragonfly? WHAT THE FAERIES LEFT BEHIND is an urban fairy tale 'antidote' to those times when the dullness and drudgery of grown-up life seems inescapable, and to the misconception that wonder and play are just for children.