Rosemary and Rue
core novel 2009 October Daye
Record
| First published | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.78 (40,804 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 346 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756405717 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Rosemary and Rue opens the October Daye series and introduces October "Toby" Daye, a half-fae changeling private investigator who spent fourteen years trapped in the body of a fish, cursed by the fae lord Simon Torquill, before regaining human form in 2009. Traumatized by the ordeal, Toby has been trying to build a quiet, ordinary life working at a grocery store and staying well away from Faerie and its politics. That fragile peace collapses when her former mentor, Countess Evening Winterrose, one of the secret fae regents of the San Francisco Bay Area, is murdered; with her dying breath, Evening binds Toby with a curse compelling her to investigate the killing, a geas Toby is physically unable to resist or ignore.
Where it sits
- Universe: October Daye
- Series: October Daye core; position 1 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 1 of 19: next A Local Habitation (2010)
Sources
- Seanan McGuire's own site: The October Daye Books
- https://october-daye.fandom.com/wiki/Rosemary_and_Rue
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