Part of October Daye
First published 2017
October "Toby" Daye enjoys a rare peaceful moment. The elf-shot cure works, Queen Arden Windermere rules the Mists, and Toby plans her wedding. Then her mother Amandine arrives with demands for help. Toby refuses until Amandine takes Jazz and Tybalt hostage. Now Toby has no choice but to obey. Her mother wants her to locate August, Amandine's eldest daughter who vanished in 1906. Toby has never met this pureblood sister. She must work with Simon Torquill, a former enemy awakened from elf-shot who becomes an uncertain partner. Together they investigate one of the Mists' oldest mysteries. Toby faces a missing person case where failure means losing the people she loves most. The search for August becomes a race against time with deadly stakes.
Genres: adventure, mystery, fantasy, paranormal-fiction, dark-fantasy, urban-fantasy
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, high-stakes, mysterious, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, found-family, high-stakes-rescue
Setting: The Mists
Period: 1906, 21st-century
368 pages · Hardcover · DAW
Content warnings: kidnapping, violence