A Local Habitation
core novel 2010 October Daye
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.90 (21,289 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 390 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756405960 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
A Local Habitation is the second novel in the October Daye series, picking up as changeling knight Toby Daye is sent by her liege lord, Duke Sylvester Torquill, to check on his niece January O'Leary, who has gone unreachable. January runs a technology company called ALH Computing in the County of Tamed Lightning, a small fae domain that also serves as a buffer zone protecting Sylvester's lands from a rival duchy's ambitions. Arriving with her young companion Quentin, Toby finds Tamed Lightning strangely cut off from the rest of Faerie and discovers that several of January's employees have died under circumstances that seem connected to her operation.
Where it sits
- Universe: October Daye
- Series: October Daye core; position 2 of 19 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Seanan McGuire
Notes
- From the series record (October Daye): Long-running urban fantasy series; the main novel sequence only. Distinct from McGuire's Wayward Children. Numerous companion novellas/short stories exist and were not researched.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series October Daye: position 2 of 19: previous Rosemary and Rue (2009) · next An Artificial Night (2010)
Sources
← October Daye dossier · All universes
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