The Winter Long (Toby Daye Book 8)

by Seanan McGuire

Call it a quirk brought on by being several hundred years older than the internal combustion engine.

was like it had all happened in backstory, and now the story had actually started.”

Luna had not only commissioned a coffin for her daughter, she’d made certain it wouldn’t clash with her décor.

“October Christine Daye—my dearest little fish—you are probably going to die horribly one day in the process of doing something you feel is absolutely necessary, and can be done by no one else. Given that this limits our time together in a way that is quite unfair, I feel that patience has ceased to be a virtue, and has instead become an indulgence. I dislike indulgences. They have their place upon the stage, but all they really do past a certain point is pad the scene.”