October Daye · Book 3

An Artificial Night

by Seanan McGuire

Published
1 January 2010
Pages
376
ISBN-13
9780756406264
Type
novel

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About this book

Published in 2010 at 376 pages, An Artificial Night is book 3 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.

Its place in October Daye

An Artificial Night is book 3 in the October Daye series. It follows A Local Habitation. It is followed by Late Eclipses. 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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