October Daye · Book 5

One Salt Sea

Published
6 September 2011
Pages
354
ISBN-13
9780756406837
Type
novel
Cover of One Salt Sea

About this book

Book 5 in Seanan McGuire's nineteen-volume October Daye series, One Salt Sea (2011, 354 pages) belongs to the same continuously building narrative -- Toby's relationships, magic, and the politics of Faerie all move forward from where the previous book left off.

Key facts about One Salt Sea

Seanan McGuire wrote One Salt Sea, a novel on our list. It has been out since 6 September 2011. The book has 354 pages.

We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780756406837 to find the main one.

One Salt Sea is book 5 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

One Salt Sea is book 5 in the October Daye series. It follows Late Eclipses. It is followed by Ashes of Honor. 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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