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Midnight Never Come

core novel 2008 The Onyx Court

Record

First published2008
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating3.50 (2,544 ratings, collected 2026-10-04)
Page count394
First-edition ISBN9780316020299
Internal chronology1

Synopsis

Beneath Elizabethan London lies the Onyx Hall, a faerie palace whose court mirrors the one above and into which no sunlight ever enters. It is ruled by Invidiana, a cold and ruthless queen who, before either of them came to her throne, made a secret pact with the young Elizabeth Tudor: the two queens have prospered together ever since, and England's golden age rests on a bargain its people know nothing of. Lune, a faerie lady fallen from Invidiana's favour, is sent above to spy on the mortal court and win back her place; Michael Deven, an ambitious young gentleman newly sworn to the Queen's Gentlemen Pensioners and working for the spymaster Walsingham, is set to uncover a hidden player behind English politics. Their paths cross, and what they uncover about the pact between the queens draws them both toward a choice that could unmake it.

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Notes

  • From the series record (The Onyx Court): Marie Brennan's historical fantasy of the faerie court hidden beneath London, the Onyx Hall, across three centuries of English history: Elizabeth I's reign, the Civil War and Great Fire, the Royal Society's eighteenth century, and Victorian London's Underground and Goblin Market.

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 The Onyx Court: position 1 of 4: next In Ashes Lie (2009)

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