A Red-rose Chain

Publisher Marketing: Things are looking up. For the first time in what feels like years, October Toby Daye has been able to pause long enough to take a breath and look at her life and she likes what she sees. She has friends. She has allies. She has a squire to train and a King of Cats to love and maybe she can let her guard down for a change. Or not. When Queen Windermere s seneschal is elf-shot and thrown into an enchanted sleep by agents from the neighboring Kingdom of Silences, Toby finds herself in a role she never expected to play: that of diplomat. She must travel to Portland, Oregon, to convince King Rhys of Silences not to go to war against the Mists. But nothing is that simple, and what October finds in Silences is worse than she would ever have imagined. How far will Toby go when lives are on the line, and when allies both old and new are threatened by a force she had never expected to face again? How much is October willing to give up, and how much is she willing to change? In Faerie, what s past is never really gone. It s just waiting for an opportunity to pounce. Prepare to be dazzled. Like the best of urban fantasy, with each reveal and mystery solved, Toby s world grows ever more enticing. As seductive as Faerie itself, this is one series I could never give up. All Things Urban Fantasy" Review Citations: Romantic Times 09/01/2015 pg. 82 (EAN 9780756408091, Mass Market Paperbound) Library Journal 09/15/2015 pg. 57 (EAN 9780756408091, Mass Market Paperbound) Publishers Weekly 09/28/2015 (EAN 9780756408091, Mass Market Paperbound) Contributor Bio:  McGuire, Seanan Seanan McGuire was born and raised in Northern California, where she has lived for the majority of her life. She spends most of her time writing or watching television, but also draws a semi-autobiographical comic strip and has released several albums of filk music (science fiction and fantasy themed folk music). To relax, Seanan enjoys travel, and frequents haunted corn mazes, aquariums with good octopus habitats, and Disney Parks. Seanan is remarkably good at finding reptiles and amphibians wherever she goes, sometimes to the dismay of the people she happens to be traveling with. 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.