New York Times best-selling October Daye faerie series
Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire
Things are slow, and October "Toby" Daye couldn't be happier about that.
The elf-shot cure has been approved, Arden Windermere is settling into
her position as Queen in the Mists, and Toby doesn't have anything
demanding her attention except for wedding planning and spending time
with her family.
Maybe she should have realized that it was too good to last.
When Toby's mother, Amandine, appears on her doorstep with a demand for
help, refusing her seems like the right thing to do...until Amandine
starts taking hostages, and everything changes. Now, Toby doesn't have a
choice about whether or not she does as her mother asks. Not with Jazz
and Tybalt's lives hanging in the balance. But who could possibly help
her find a pureblood she's never met, one who's been missing for over
100 years?
Enter Simon Torquill, elf-shot enemy turned awakened, uneasy ally.
Together, the two of them must try to solve one of the greatest
mysteries in the Mists: what happened to Amandine's oldest daughter,
August, who disappeared in 1906.
This is one missing person case Toby can't afford to get wrong.