Destined is the fourth and final young-adult faerie novel in the New York Times best-selling Wings series[1] by Aprilynne Pike.

It follows Pike's #1 New York Times best-selling debut, Wings,[2] and the direct sequels, Spells and Illusions.

Yuki tells Tamani that she had wanted to come clean to him, she would have given up everything for him, and that they are alike; used by people who don't truly love them (Laurel and Klea).

She wants to tell Jamison about Yuki, but Shar points out that it would require opening the gate, possibly revealing its location to Klea.

Klea explains stole a seed from the Unseelie fae, faked her death by cutting off her blossom, and used cloning to eventually get a Winter faerie sprout.

Jamison warns that Klea will be arriving with potentially thousands of magic-immune trolls and that they need all the help they can get.

Jamison orders Yasmine to stay with Marion, where she will be safe, and the trolls arrive, armed with guns.

He tells David to defend the gate, and that so long as he's holding Excalibur, he can't be harmed.

Tamani and the sentries fight alongside David at the gate, and suddenly there seem to be no more trolls coming through.

Laurel, David, Tamani and Chelsea avoid it by using each other to breathe, since faeries exhale oxygen and inhale carbon dioxide.

David fights them as Tamani, Laurel and Jamison get inside the Academy, but is locked out in the process.

Outside, David is starting to tire from holding the sword, so Laurel, Chelsea and Tamani pull him up onto a balcony, away from the trolls, so he can rest a little.

When David removes his ruined, bloody shirt, the Fall faeries are surprised to see chest hair—they hadn't realised he or Chelsea were human.

Laurel patches him and Tamani up but just as David is about to go fight the trolls again, they start dropping dead.

Tamani says her next goal will be the Winter Palace, then they all notice a strange, oily, red gas leaking into the Academy.

David cuts a doorway into the greenhouse and everyone begins dragging unconscious faeries out to safety, but Laurel is slowed down as she tries to save Mara.

Klea tells David she wants to fix Avalon's backwards thinking and that as a human, which most faeries disdain, he should join her.

Laurel goes to the World Tree, cutting her hand and its bark to force a connection that usually requires hours or days of meditation, asking for help with Klea's poison.

David threatens to use Excalibur to cut the gates, but admits he can't bring himself to do it because it would leave Avalon so vulnerable.

Jamison tells Laurel that he might not be around when she next comes to Avalon, because he has been planning his own way to restructure the hierarchy, ever since Yasmine—who is too close in age to Marion, and so would never been Queen herself—sprouted.

Tamani then tells Laurel, Chelsea and David to gather around him, and he pulls his transformed knife from his pocket: Yuki turned it into a key.

A lock appears on the gate, and Tamani opens it, hides the key again, and the four of them walk out of Avalon.

Years later, David writes a letter to Chelsea, who has just given birth to a daughter, Sophie, with her husband, Jason.

Unwilling to let his story be completely lost forever, he has written it down for Sophie, and Chelsea can do with it as she pleases—burn it, hide it, publish it.

Tamani is a Spring faerie and Laurel's fear-gleidhidh, her guardian charged with making sure she stays safe and fulfils her duties as the scion.

She has had a crush on David for years and the two get together at the end of the book, though the epilogue reveals they eventually break up.

She is in love with Tamani and eventually betrays Klea to make a key that will open the gate to Avalon without a Winter faerie.

Destined received critical acclaim prior to its release, garnering a starred review from VOYA.

[4] New York Times best-selling young adult author Claudia Gray endorsed the book with a cover blurb stating, "The greatest part: the Wings series reaches the perfect ending.

The Romantic Times awarded Destined a "top pick," noting that "Pike's clever and innovative way of reinventing fairy tales and myths to make them her own is wonderful...[The] story is rich in vivid details, action, adventure, and romance.