October Daye · Book 16
Be the Serpent
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780756416867
- Type
- novel

About this book
Be the Serpent (2022) picks up Toby's story as book 16 of the October Daye series, 368 pages that keep pace with the series' noir-detective plotting and high-stakes faerie court intrigue; publication order is story order here, so it follows directly from the book before it.
Its place in October Daye
Be the Serpent is book 16 in the October Daye series. It follows When Sorrows Come. It is followed by Sleep No More. 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 9780756416867
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780756416874