October Daye · Book 3
An Artificial Night
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 376
- ISBN-13
- 9780756406264
- Type
- novel
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780756406264