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Discount Armageddon

Ghoulies. Ghosties. Long-legged beasties. Things that go bump in the night... The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity-and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan while she pursues her career in professional ballroom dance. Sounds pretty simple, right? It would be, if it weren't for the talking mice, the telepathic mathematicians, the asbestos supermodels, and the trained monster-hunter sent by the Price family's old enemies, the Covenant of St. George. When a Price girl meets a Covenant boy, high stakes, high heels, and a lot of collateral damage are almost guaranteed. To complicate matters further, local cryptids are disappearing, strange lizard-men are appearing in the sewers, and someone's spreading rumors about a dragon sleeping underneath the city...

Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Apr 23, 2012
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy
All the things that go bump in the night are real. They live among us in secret. Most just want to live their life in peace. A select few start to snack on the human population. The Covenant, a large group of humans who know the monsters exist, are bent on destroying them all, regardless of innocence or guilt. The Price family takes another approach. They study the monsters, cryptids being the more polite ter

One Salt Sea

October "Toby" Daye is settling into her new role as Countess of Goldengreen. She's actually dating again, and she's taken on Quentin as her squire. So, of course, it's time for things to take a turn for the worse.

Someone has kidnapped the sons of the regent of the Undersea Duchy of Saltmist. To prevent a war between land and sea, Toby must find the missing boys and prove the Queen of the Mists was not behind their abduction. Toby's search will take her from the streets of San Francisco to the lands beneath the waves, and her deadline is firm: she must find the boys in three days' time, or all of the Mists will pay the price. But someone is determined to stop her-and whoever it is isn't playing by Oberon's Laws...

Reviewer: Missyb0103
Review: Aug 30, 2011
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Fae / Elves
For October "Toby" Daye life is going pretty good right now. She is getting the hang of being Countess of Goldengreen, she has been dating Connor, and has taken on a squire. When someone kidnaps the sons of the Undersea Duchy, war is about to break loose unless Toby can find the boys in time. I Love, Love this series. I was hooked from book one, and with each book after my obsession grows. Rarely do you fi

Late Eclipses

October "Toby" Daye is half-human, half-fae-the only changeling who's earned knighthood. But when someone begins targeting her nearest and dearest, it becomes clear that Toby is being set up to take the fall for everything that's happening.

Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Feb 21, 2011
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Fae / Elves
Toby's life has always been strange. Being a changeling, one foot in the land of humans and one in the land of Faerie has just been the tip of the iceberg. Through the previous volumes, her journey has continued down this strange path and we have traveled with her. It would be impossible to travel down those dark roads and not feel close to Toby. In Late Eclipses, Lily, Lady of the Tea Gardens has fallen ill.

An Artificial Night

Experience the thrill of the hunt in the third October Daye urban fantasy novel.

October "Toby" Daye is a changeling-half human and half fae-and the only one who has earned knighthood. Now she must take on a nightmarish new challenge. Someone is stealing the children of the fae as well as mortal children, and all signs point to Blind Michael. Toby has no choice but to track the villain down-even when there are only three magical roads by which to reach Blind Michael's realm, home of the Wild Hunt-and no road may be taken more than once. If Toby cannot escape with the children, she will fall prey to the Wild Hunt and Blind Michael's inescapable power.

 

Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Oct 8, 2010
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Fae / Elves
The start of An Artificial Night is deceptively simple. Children are disappearing from their beds. Not just any children but children that Toby knows and loves. When her Fetch, the harbringer of her death, arrives, it doesn't stop Toby from finding those kids and bringing them home. Even when the trail leads to an ancient being who doesn't like to lose. How far will Toby be willing to go to save the

A Local Habitation

Now comes the second in the series-from a dynamic new fantasy talent!

Toby Daye-a half-human, half-fae changeling-has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the fae world, retreating to a "normal" life. Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world had other ideas...

Now her liege, the Duke of the Shadowed Hills, has asked Toby to go to the Country of Tamed Lightening to make sure all is well with his niece, Countess January O'Leary. It seems like a simple enough assignment-until Toby discovers that someone has begun murdering people close to January, and that if the killer isn't stopped, January may be the next victim. 

Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Mar 7, 2010
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Fae / Elves
The events in A Local Habitation take place not long after Rosemary and Rue. I would advise reading these books in order. Toby Daye has gotten her PI license reinstated and is working cases in the human world as well as resuming active duty for her liege lord, Duke Torquill. The Duke comes to visit Toby with a task for her to complete. His niece, January O’Leary is the leader of a small County sandwiche

Rosemary and Rue

The world of Faerie never disappeared: it merely went into hiding, continuing to exist parallel to our own. Secrecy is the key to Faerie's survival—but no secret can be kept forever, and when the fae and mortal worlds collide, changelings are born. Half-human, half-fae, outsiders from birth, these second-class children of Faerie spend their lives fighting for the respect of their immortal relations. Or, in the case of October "Toby" Daye, rejecting it completely. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the fae world, retreating into a "normal" life. Unfortunately for her, Faerie has other ideas.

The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose, one of the secret regents of the San Francisco Bay Area, pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening's dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby is forced to resume her old position as knight errant to the Duke of Shadowed Hills and begin renewing old alliances that may prove her only hope of solving the mystery...before the curse catches up with her.

 
 
Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Aug 18, 2009
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Fae / Elves
I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire. I don’t remember where I first heard about this book but the title really piqued my interest. The more I read, the more I was chomping at the bit to get this book. San Francisco, faeries, a heroine named October, what’s not to love! The premise is deceptively simple. October “Toby” Daye is a changeling, her da

Reviewer: Srividhya
Review: Oct 8, 2011
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Fae / Elves
In this first book, we are introduced to October "Toby" Daye, a changeling who works as a PI with a live-in fianc‚ and a daughter. Her liege's wife and daughter are missing and Toby is asked to investigate. In the process of the investigation, she gets caught by two purebloods and is turned into a fish. No one knows. And suddenly 14 years later, the curse just lifts off by itself. After the curse lifts off,

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