Midnight Never Come

#1 Onyx Court

Marie Brennan

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Titan Books
01 February 2016

Fantasy

Series: Onyx Court

England flourishes under the hand of its Virgin Queen: Elizabeth, Gloriana, last and most powerful of theTudor monarchs.

But a great light casts a great shadow.

In hidden catacombs beneath London, a second Queen holds court: Invidiana, ruler of faerie England, and adark mirror to the glory above. In the thirty years since Elizabeth ascended her throne, fae and mortal politicshave become inextricably entwined, in secret alliances and ruthless betrayals whose existence is suspectedonly by a few.

Two courtiers, both struggling for royal favor, are about to uncover the secrets that lie behind these twothrones. When the faerie lady Lune is sent to monitor and manipulate Elizabeth's spymaster, Walsingham, herpath crosses that of Michael Deven, a mortal gentleman and agent of Walsingham's. His discovery of the""hidden player"" in English politics will test Lune's loyalty and Deven's courage alike. Will she betray herQueen for the sake of a world that is not hers? And can he survive in the alien and Machiavellian world of thefae? For only together will they be able to find the source of Invidiana's power-find it, and break it...

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By: Marie Brennan
Imprint: Titan Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm,
Weight: 330g
ISBN: 9781785650734
ISBN 10: 1785650734
Series: Onyx Court
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 February 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marie Brennan is a former academic with a background in archaeology, anthropology, and folklore, which she now puts to rather cockeyed use in writing fantasy. She is the critically acclaimed author of the lady Trent series, as well as the Doppelganger and Onyx Court novels, six novellas and more than thirty short stories. She won two Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Grand Prizes.