Only, the kidnapper isn’t human and neither is she. The prologue takes place in 1995, where private investigator October ‘Toby’ Daye is on the trail of a potential kidnapper. On the other hand… well, when I’m reading, romance is the lifeblood which usually keeps me sustained with a book, and reading the first half of this series was like slowly starving to death. On the one hand, it’s all about the fae – my catnip – and is proclaimed to be interesting and well-written. I’ve gone back and forth for a LONG time on whether to read this series or not.

As she steps back into fae society, dealing with a cast of characters not entirely good or evil, she realizes that more than her own life will be forfeited if she cannot find Evening’s killer. Unable to resist Evening’s dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant and renew old alliances. The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose pulls Toby back into the fae world.

Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world has other ideas… After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the Faerie world, retreating to a “normal” life. October “Toby” Daye, a changeling who is half human and half fae, has been an outsider from birth. It's going to take everything she's got just to stay alive, and the stakes are higher than anyone has guessed. Toby has retreated into a 'normal' life - spending her nights stocking shelves at a San Francisco grocery store and her days asleep in her downtown apartment.īut when Countess Evening Winterroseis murdered, Toby finds herself drawn abruptly back into the world she thought she'd left behind. Or in the case of October 'Toby' Daye, rejecting the fae completely. Outsiders from birth, these children spend their lives fighting for the respect of their immortal relations. Secrecy is the key to Faerie's survival: but no secret can be kept forever, and when the fae and mortal worlds collide, changelings are born. The world of Faerie never disappeared it merely went into hiding, continuing to exist parallel to our own.

The first instalment of the highly praised Toby Daye series. One of the Top 20 Paranormal Fantasy Novels of the Past Decade: Meet October Toby Daye: fae half-breed, former street kid, self-exiled knight-errant from the Dutchy of Shadowed Hills.

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