"When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll."--Colophon.

After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis Fowl's mind was wiped of memories of the world belowground and any goodness grudgingly learned is now gone, with the young genius reverting to his criminal lifestyle. Artemis has no memory of the fairy people and has returned to his unlawful ways. In Berlin, he is preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank. He doesn't know that his old rival, Opal, has escaped from prison...

"Teenage genius Artemis Fowl and his arch rival Opal battle to the last in this eighth and final book in series"--

When Ripper the gremlin, Bruchard the gargoyle, and Mr. Jones the dwarf start acting against their magical natures, they seek out the fairies, who assign Primrose and her fairy friends to discover what has happened.

"Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior...

Four best friends are jealous of a neighbor girl and refuse to have anything to do with her, until they each have a dream in which a fairy godmother shows them what the girl's life is really like.

Rachel and Kirsty must find the feather that belongs to Hayley the rain fairy in order to stop a flood.

Camilla the cupcake fairy is thrilled to get her very first wand, but when using it turns out to be more difficult than she expected she calls on her friends to help her use it to make delicious cupcake frosting with sprinkles.

In the Great Fairy Race no fairy can use her own wings or legs, and so they compete on various animals and contraptions as each tries to prove she is fastest, but all run into a mess of trouble, except Lily, who creeps along atop a snail.