Late Eclipses: an October Daye Novel

Publisher Marketing: Two years ago, October Toby Daye believed she could leave the world of Faerie behind. She was wrong. Now she finds herself in the service of Duke Sylvester Torquill, sharing an apartment with her Fetch, and maintaining an odd truce with Tybalt, the local King of Cats. It s a delicate balance one that s shattered when she learns that an old friend is in dire trouble. Lily, Lady of the Tea Gardens, has been struck down by a mysterious, seemingly impossible illness, leaving her fiefdom undefended. Struggling to find a way to save Lily and her subjects, Toby must confront her own past as an enemy she thought was gone forever raises her head once more: Oleander de Merelands, one of the two people responsible for her fourteen-year exile. But if Oleander s back, what s her game? Where is she hiding? And what part does Toby s mother, Amandine, have to play? Time is growing short and the stakes are getting higher. For the Queen of the Mists has her own agenda, and there are more players in this game than Toby can guess. With everything on the line, she will have to take the ultimate risk to save herself and the people she loves most because if she can t find the missing pieces of the puzzle in time, Toby will be forced to make the one choice she never thought she d have to face again. McGuire hits her stride with this fast-paced, sharply plotted, tense urban fantasy ("Artificial Night"). Publishers Weekly" Review Citations: Library Journal 03/15/2011 pg. 110 (EAN 9780756406660, Mass Market Paperbound) Publishers Weekly 01/31/2011 (EAN 9780756406660, Mass Market Paperbound) Romantic Times 03/01/2011 pg. 99 (EAN 9780756406660, Mass Market Paperbound) Contributor Bio:  McGuire, Seanan Seanan McGuire watches too much television, which does not explain how she also writes three books a year (as two different people, no less - she's also Mira Grant), dozens of short stories, and endless blog posts. It has been posited that she may be a Time Lady herself, or possibly an alien pod plant. Both seem equally likely. Seanan has been nominated for a variety of genre awards, and won the '011 Campbell Award for Best New Writer. 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.