New York Times-bestselling October Daye faerie series Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire Top of my urban-paranormal series list!Felicia Day

Contains an original bonus novella,Of Things Unknown!

Things are slow, and October Toby Daye couldnt 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 doesnt 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 Tobys mother, Amandine, appears on her doorstep with a demand for help, refusing her seems like the right thing to dountil Amandine starts taking hostages, and everything changes. Now Toby doesnt have a choice about whether or not she does as her mother asks. Not with Jazz an