October Daye · Book 18
The Innocent Sleep
- Published
- 24 October 2023
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780756416805
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Innocent Sleep (2023) is the eighteenth October Daye novel, but structurally an outlier: rather than advancing the timeline, it retells the events of the previous book, Sleep No More, from Tybalt's point of view. At 368 pages, it's best read immediately after Sleep No More rather than as the next new plot beat.
Its place in October Daye
The Innocent Sleep is book 18 in the October Daye series. It follows Sleep No More. It is followed by Silver and Lead. 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 9780756416805