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In Ashes Lie
In Ashes Lie
Author: Marie Brennan
Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan was one of last year’s great discoveries— -- a breathtaking novel of intrigue and betrayal set in a Stuart England with a shocking secret: the existence of a faerie court beneath London'’s streets, a shadowy realm whose inner workings mirror events in the world above. — In Ashes Lie...  more »opens in September 1666. In the house of a sleeping baker, a spark leaps from the oven -- —and ignites a blaze that threatens to burn London to the ground. As mortals fight the inferno above, the faerie realm battles the smoldering tensions of treason and war.

For 20 years, internal strife tore England apart, as King Charles fought Parliament with politics and armies alike. Meanwhile, beset by political woes, the Onyx Court was under constant attack by foes who despise its harmony with humans and the staunch refusal of Queen Lune to manipulate mortal affairs. Now those enemies have harnessed a greater power—an elemental force that threatens to devour everything in its path... in both realms. As the conflagration rages above their heads, Lune and the fae pit themselves against the spirit of the Fire itself. But everything they'’ve worked so hard to defend may yet turn to ash....
ISBN-13: 9780316020329
ISBN-10: 031602032X
Publication Date: 6/10/2009
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Orbit
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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