A Local Habitation: an October Daye Novel

Publisher Marketing: October Toby Daye is a changeling, the daughter of Amandine of the fae and a mortal man. Like her mother, she is gifted in blood magic, able to read what has happened to a person through a mere taste of blood. Half-human, half-fae, outsiders from birth, most changelings are second-class children of Faerie spending their lives fighting for the respect of their immortal relations. Toby is the only changeling who has earned knighthood, and she re-earns that position every day, undertaking assignments for her liege, Sylvester, the Duke of the Shadowed Hills. Now Sylvester has asked her to go to the County of Tamed Lightning otherwise known as Fremont, California to make sure that all is well with his niece, Countess January O Leary, whom he has not been able to contact. It seems like a simple enough assignment but when dealing with the realm of Faerie nothing is ever as simple as it seems. January runs a company that produces computer fantasy games, and her domain is a buffer between Sylvester s realm and a rival duchy whose ruler is looking for an opportunity to seize control. And that is the least of January s problems. For Tamed Lightning has somehow been cut off from the other domains, and now someone has begun to murder January s key people. If Toby can t find and stop the killer soon, she may well become the next victim ." Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/25/2010 pg. 103 (EAN 9780756405960, Mass Market Paperbound) Library Journal 02/15/2010 pg. 88 (EAN 9780756405960, Mass Market Paperbound) Romantic Times 03/01/2010 pg. 101 (EAN 9780756405960, Mass Market Paperbound) Booklist 02/15/2010 pg. 42 (EAN 9780756405960, Mass Market Paperbound) Contributor Bio:  McGuire, Seanan Seanan McGuire is the award-winning and New York Times "bestselling author of two urban fantasy series, the InCryptid and the October Daye series. She also writes under the name Mira Grant. The winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2010, she was also the first woman to be nominated for four Hugo Awards in a single year. Contributor Bio:  Kowal, Mary Robinette MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL was the 2008 recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and a Hugo winner for her story "For Want of a Nail." Her short fiction has appeared in "Strange Horizons, Asimov's, "and several Year's Best anthologies. She also writes the Glamourist History series, which began with "Shades of Milk and Honey." A professional puppeteer and voice actor, she spent five years touring nationally with puppet theaters. She lives in Chicago with her husband Rob and many manual typewriters.