One Salt Sea (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• October "Toby" Daye: Countess of Goldengreen, knight to Sylvester Torquill of the Shadowed Hills
• Quentin: Toby's squire
• Tybalt: King of Dreaming Cats; a Cait Sidth
• Connor: Toby's boyfriend, a Selkie
• Sylvester Torquill: Duke of Shadowed Hills, Toby's liege lord
• Rayseline Torquill: Sylvester's mad daughter, Connor's ex-wife
• May: Toby's former fetch, who looks almost exactly like her
• Marcia: Toby's seneschal at Goldengreen
• The Luidaeg: The sea witch, one of the Firstborn
• Dianda Lorden: Duchess of Saltmist
• Patrick Lorden: Ducal consort of Saltmist
• Gillian "Gilly": Toby's daughter
• Danny: Bridge Troll cab driver
• Amandine: Toby's mother

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• “Hopefully, anyone who say a woman riding a screaming mermaid in a whellchair down Leavenworth at a quarter to five in the morning would just think they'd had too much to drink.”

  Toby

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• “Done more than she thought she would, but not as much as she’ll do, once she’s given cause to eat the fruit of the Judas tree.”

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• “There, there, my lovely one. She’ll steer you sure enough. Just never let her near the silver. Line of thieves, hers is, and they’d rob even royalty blind.” She turned a mad, serene smile on me. “I know you’ve not stolen half a heartbeat from a stolen child as yet, but you will, given time. You will.”

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• The courtesy we can afford for the sake of the life you saved can only extend so far.

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• “Countess of Goldengreen, the land that falls to rise and falls again, daughter of Amandine the liar, mother of Gillian with the eyes half-open but so soon to close, she who’ll stand by the burning tree with a brand bare in her hand and a song upon her lips, yes, yes, we know you,” she said, waving a hand. “Trust her, my Pat. She believes her words, and if she lies, she doesn’t know it.”

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• As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark; As many ways meet in one town; As many streams meet in one salt sea; So may a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose. —William Shakespeare, King Henry V

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• “Now, now, my little soldier boy, stay as you are, and rest. Your place in this tale is nearly severed through, and the time for roving’s done. Rest a while, before the end begins.”

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• “Please hold while your party is reached,” I said, singsong. “You may press the pound sign to return to this menu at any time. To be assassinated by a tribe of warrior grasshoppers, press three.”

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• “She’ll bring them home to us,” said the Roane woman. Smiling, she continued, “What she has to pay is dearer than salt, but she’ll bring them home.”

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• I was getting tired of being in an endless succession of things called “the fight of a lifetime.” Just once, I’d like to have the fight of a Tuesday afternoon.

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• “Oh, see, now you’re hurtin’ my feelings. Why would I drop—Titania’s tiny titties, girl, you’re a fucking fish!”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Undersea Duchy of Saltmist
• San Francisco
• Muir Woods

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Late Eclipses, and followed by Ashes of Honor.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Seanan McGuire (Author)

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• Dewey: 813

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
• Books › Literature & Fiction
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Urban

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