October Daye · Book 9

A Red-Rose Chain

Published
1 September 2015
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9780756408091
Type
novel
Cover of A Red-Rose Chain

About this book

Published in 2015 at 368 pages, A Red-Rose Chain is book 9 of nineteen in the October Daye series, where October "Toby" Daye's power and status keep evolving rather than resetting -- one more installment in McGuire's dense, poetic take on urban fantasy noir.

Key facts about A Red-Rose Chain

A Red-Rose Chain is a novel by Seanan McGuire. Readers have had it since 1 September 2015. It runs to 368 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of A Red-Rose Chain. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780756408091 to find the main one.

A Red-Rose Chain is book 9 of 19 in the October Daye series. The series has 19 published books. However, the series starts with Rosemary and Rue (2009). The Innocent Sleep is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 24 October 2023.

Additionally, Seanan McGuire writes InCryptid, Ghost Roads and Wayward Children, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our urban fantasy, portal fantasy and dark fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Inkpot Gods is the latest published Seanan McGuire book on file, from 9 June 2026. The next announced Seanan McGuire release is due on 12 January 2027, so there is still more to come.

About Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire is a prolific American author of urban fantasy and speculative fiction, best known for the long-running October Daye series, which follows a half-fae, half-human private investigator navigating the hidden Faerie courts of San Francisco. See every Seanan McGuire book in order.

Its place in October Daye

A Red-Rose Chain is book 9 in the October Daye series. It follows The Winter Long. It is followed by Once Broken Faith. See the full October Daye reading order.

October "Toby" Daye is a changeling -- half human, half faerie -- private investigator working the knife-edge between mortal San Francisco and the hidden, politically fractured world of Faerie underneath it. After a botched undercover job leaves her trapped as a fish for fourteen years, Toby returns to a life and family that moved on without her, and gets pulled back into faerie politics anyway: missing changeling children, court assassinations, ancient curses, and a slow-building mystery about her own parentage…

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