12th book in the October Daye series.
Things are not ok and Toby is not sure if they will ever be ok again after what her mother did (see previous book). May's girlfriend, Jazz, is having nightmares and they are trying to work through it but its hard and slow-going. Sylvester, Toby's liege and surrogate father, is not speaking to her. Worst of all, Tybalt is avoiding her. Always before, he has been there and now she feels that the earth under her feet is no longer solid.
So who shows up at her door? Her ex- and his wife to inform Toby that her daughter is missing, presumed kidnapped, and (after accusing her of doing it) to ask for her help in finding Gillian. Any other quest Toby may have refused but this is her daughter, even if they are estranged, and she can't walk away. When she finds out that faerie is involved, she knows Gillian is in danger because of her and she will do everything in her power to get her daughter back. She just has no idea, as usual, of just what or who she is up against.
Ms. McGuire manages to keep upping the stakes on Toby but not, like so many authors, make them ridiculously hard or just have Toby snap her fingers to acquire new powers (ok, there was a bit of that for a while but that has died down as I think Toby is now in the form she was meant to be in). There was reason for what happened in this story (however twisted but it's there) and not just new baddies. False trails and falser 'friends' all leads to a delightful tale.
Page count: 352p/352p ytd/311,257p lifetime
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