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October Daye · Book 1

Rosemary and Rue

by Seanan McGuire

Published
1 January 2009
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9781101139196
Type
novel

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Cover of Rosemary and Rue

About this book

Rosemary and Rue is book 1 of Seanan McGuire's October Daye series, published in 2009 and running 368 pages. Like the rest of the series, it follows the changeling PI as she works the fault line between mortal San Francisco and the political world of Faerie beneath it, in a long story that only makes sense read in publication order.

Its place in October Daye

Rosemary and Rue is book 1 in the October Daye series. It is followed by A Local Habitation. 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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