2 yrs ago, October “Toby” Daye believed she could leave the world of Faerie behind. She was wrong. Now she finds herself in the support of Duke Sylvester Torquill, sharing an apartment with her Fetch, and preserving an unusual truce with Tybalt, the neighborhood King of Pet cats. It’s a delicate rest – one that’s shattered when she learns that an previous friend is within dire difficulty. Lily, Lady from the Tea Landscapes, has been struck down by a strange, seemingly impossible illness, departing her fiefdom about Later Eclipses undefended. Desperate for ways to save Lily and her topics, Toby must confront her personal past as an foe she believed was gone permanently raises her mind once more: Oleander de Merelands, one of the two people responsible for her fourteen-year exile. But if Oleander’s back, what’s her game? Where is normally she concealing? And what part does Toby’s mother, Amandine, need to enjoy? Time is growing short and the stakes are receiving higher. For the Queen from the Mists offers her own plan, and you will find more players within this game than Toby can figure. With everything on the line, she will need to take the ultimate risk to save herself and the people she loves most – because if she can’t find the missing pieces of the puzzle in time, Toby will be required to make the one choice she hardly ever thought she’d have to face again… “McGuire hits her stride with this fast-paced, sharply plotted, tense metropolitan fantasy (Artificial Evening)…” -Web publishers Weekly