The Will and the Wilds, by Charlie N. Holmberg

 

It was a story that totally engulfed me as I was reading, and when I stopped reading, it took a fraction of a moment for me to come back to the real world.
Unlike many fantasy stories, this one has a small cast and a small world - but it works. It is YA Romance set in a fantasy world, but it reads almost like a fairy tale.
Enna and her father live in a secluded spot at the edge of the woods, where monsters called Mystings lurk and humans must take care. She is bold and unafraid, but when she is attacked by a Gobler Mysting, she decides to summon a mysting that she can bargain with to protect her. But what she gets is more than she bargains for.

I've read several of this author's books and enjoyed them all.