October Daye · Book 15
When Sorrows Come
- Published
- 14 September 2021
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9780756412562
- Type
- novel

About this book
Published in 2021 at 416 pages, When Sorrows Come is book 15 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
When Sorrows Come is book 15 in the October Daye series. It follows A Killing Frost. It is followed by Be the Serpent. 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 9780756415099
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780756412562