One Salt Sea
core novel 2011 October Daye
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.32 (20,519 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 354 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756406837 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
One Salt Sea is the fifth novel in the October Daye series. It opens with Toby enjoying a rare stretch of stability: she now holds a title among fae nobility, has a squire she is training, and has settled into a steady relationship. That calm ends when the Luidaeg, the powerful sea witch to whom Toby owes an old debt, calls it in and demands that Toby prevent a war between the land-based fae and the Undersea kingdom. The immediate cause is the disappearance of the two young sons of Duchess Dianda Lorden of Saltmist, an abduction that threatens to ignite open conflict between the two realms, and Toby is given only three days to find the missing boys and clear the Queen of the Mists of suspicion in their kidnapping.
Where it sits
- Universe: October Daye
- Series: October Daye core; position 5 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 5 of 19: previous Late Eclipses (2011) · next Ashes of Honor (2012)
Sources
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