Seanan McGuire's New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated
urban fantasy InCryptid series continues with the twelfth book following
the Price family, cryptozoologists who study and protect the creatures
living in secret all around us.
Reunion, noun:
- The state of being united again.
Reconciliation, noun:
- An act of reconciling, as when former enemies agree to an amiable
truce.
- The process of making consistent or compatible.
- See also "impossible."
Alice Price-Healy gave up her life for fifty years to focus completely
on the search for her missing husband. The danger of focus like that is
that it leaves little room for thinking about what happens after...and
now that she's finally managed to find Thomas, she has no idea what
she's supposed to do next. The fact that he comes with a surrogate
daughter who may or may not have some connection to Alice's recently
adopted grandson is just icing on the complicated cake.
So the three of them are heading for the most complicated place in the
universe: they're going home.
But things on Earth have changed while Alice, Thomas, and Sally have
been away. The Covenant of St. George, antagonized by Verity's
declaration of war and Sarah's temporary relocation of an entire college
campus, is trying to retake North America from the cryptids and
cryptozoologists who've been keeping the peace for the past hundred
years. And they're starting in New York.
Alice and company have barely been back for an hour before the Ocean
Lady and the Queen of the Routewitches are sending them to New York to
help, and they find themselves embroiled in the politics of dragons,
kidnappings, and of course, the most dangerous people of all: family.
Getting "back to normal" may be the hardest task Alice has undertaken
yet.
