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• Danielle (Dani) O'Malley: "Mega" - " Danielle Megan O'Malley" - Sidhe-Seer with inhuman speed, strength, a heightened sense of hearing, smell, eyesight and a voracious appetite; A lightly freckled redhead; Has green-gold eyes and a halo of curly auburn hair that falls halfway down her back; 14 years old; Is 5' 2 ¾"; Her mother was killed by a Fae; Is a messenger for Post Haste, Inc.; Carries the Sword of Light
• Ryodan: "Ry" - "Ry-O" - Owner of Chester's; One of Barrons' Eight; Is IYCGM on Mac's cell phone; Is not Fae but not human; Is very handsome, tall and well built with thickly muscled forearms; His neck is a skein of scars, with a long, wicked-looking one stretching up the left side from shoulder to ear; Looks to be in his early 30's; Has clear eyes
• Dancer: Dani's mysterious "boyfriend" from "Shadowfever"; 17 years old; Australian visiting to check out the Physics dept in Trinity; is extremely intelligent; can speak four languages fluently and read three or four more; Is six-five, lanky and lean with wide shoulders, chin-length, dark wavy hair and aqua eyes; Looks like a hunky geek with his glasses on
• Christian MacKeltar: "Chris" - "Scotty" - Comes from a clan that once served as high Druids to the Fae and have been upholding the human part of the Fae/Man Compact for thousands of years, performing rituals and paying tithes; Is nearly six-six with wide shoulders, nice muscles and bronzed skin; Has long black hair, a great Scottish accent, and dreamy eyes, an unusual shade of amber, like tiger eyes, framed by thick, black lashes; Maggie & Christopher's son; Colleen's twin; Cory & Cara's older brother; Has another set of younger twin siblings; 22 years old; Is a walking Lie detector; Was trapped in the Silvers and, after Mac fed him Unseelie, he has been transforming into an Unseelie Prince; Has kaleidoscopic tattoos swirling under his skin and is growing wings
• Jericho Barrons: "Jericho Z. Barrons" - "J.B." - Immortal; Mac's lover; Looks 31 years old but is much older; Is extremely attractive with strong, chiseled features; Is six-three and powerfully built with black hair, brown eyes and golden skin; Owner of Barrons Books & Baubles; Knows Sorcery black arts and Duridry; Can transform into a beast and was IYD on Mac's phone; Is reborn at dawn in a desert if he's ever dealt a fatal wound
• MacKayla (Mac) Lane: "TP" - "MacKayla O'Connor" - "MacKayla Evelina Lane" - Sidhe-Seer, Null & OOP Detector; Dani's used-to-be best friend; Barrons' lover; 22 years old; Has curly, shoulder-length blonde hair, green eyes and a curvaceous body; Loved pink, reading and listening to music on her iPod in the early books before the wall came down.
• Katrina (Kat) McLaughlin: Sidhe-Seer with the gift of emotional empathy; New Grand Mistress; A member of the Haven; Dani's friend; Sean's fiancée; A tall, gray-eyed brunette; Is in her mid-20's
• Jo: Sidhe-seer; Dani's friend; A member of the Haven; A researcher and a linguist; Has a delicate and pretty face; Has really short, dark hair and uses reading glasses
• Fade: One of Barrons' Eight; Is not Fae but not human; Is very tall and heavily muscled with dozens of scars on his hands and arms; Looks to be in his early 30's; Works with Ryodan at Chester's
• Lor: One of Barrons' Eight; Is not Fae but not human; Is very tall and heavily muscled with dozens of scars on his hands and arms; Looks to be in his early 30's; Works with Ryodan at Chester's
• Kasteo: One of Barrons' Eight; Is not Fae but not human; Is very tall and heavily muscled; Looks to be in his early 30's; He hasn't said a word in a thousand years since the others killed his human woman because he told her too much
• Shadow: One of Barrons' Eight; Is not Fae but not human; Is about six-nine, heavily muscled and scarred; Has hair like night and eyes like whiskey in a glass; Looks to be in his early 30's; barely speak and is given his name by Dani.
• Alina Lane: "Alina O'Connor" - "Alina MacKenna Lane" - Sidhe-Seer & Null; Mac's older sister & best friend; 24 years old; Had long blonde hair and green eyes; Was brutally murdered in Dublin; Reason for which Mac traveled to Ireland -- to seek justice for her death
• Rainey Lane: "Rainey Frye" - Mac & Alina's adopted mother; Jack's wife for over thirty years; Has ash-blonde hair and blue eyes; A southern belle; Is heading "New Dublin Green-Up"
• Jack Lane: Mac & Alina's adopted father; Rainey's husband for over thirty years; Has silver-tipped dark brown hair and brown eyes; Is six-two and strong looking; A corporate tax attorney in Georgia; Is smart, charming , well spoken and tough as a tiger when provoked; Is heading a Cleanup Program in Dublin
• Christopher MacKeltar: Father to Christian, Colleen, Cory, Cara and another set of twins; Maggie's husband; Current MacKeltar laird & Druid; Is tall and muscular; Has dark hair and deep gray eyes
• Sean O'Bannion: Kat's fiancé; They shared a playpen and grew up together; Rocky & Derek's cousin; Has black hair, dark eyes and fair Irish skin
• Val: Sidhe-seer
• Inspector Jayne: Garda Inspector investigating O'Duffy's murder; Patrick O'Duffy's brother-in-law; Is married with children; Is tall and burly with brown hair neatly combed to a side part and dark eyes; His craggy face is set in harsh lines; Mac fed him Unseelie so he could see what was happening in Dublin; Now heads the regime who hunt and kill anything Fae
• Margery Bean-McLaughlin: "Margery Annabelle Bean-McLaughlin" - Sidhe-seer; Kat's cousin; Is one year older than Kat; Was part of Rowena's inner circle
• Colleen: Sidhe-seer
• Meehan Twins: Sidhe-seers
• Tara Lynn: Sidhe-seer
• Barb: Sidhe-Seer; The Sinsar Dubh took her over in the last book and she went on a killing spree in the abbey.
• Maggie: Sidhe-seer; First human that Rowena tricked Dani into killing
• Deborah Siobhan O'Connor: A centuries-dead Grand Mistress
• Tanty Anna: Sidhe-seer; 102 years old
• Josie: Sidhe-seer; A skinny Goth girl; Has dark eyes with platinum hair, heavy black eyeliner and matching nail polish
• Lorena: Sidhe-seer
• Rowena: "Ro" - "Rowena O'Reilly" - Former grand mistress of Sidhe-seers organized as couriers at Post Haste, Inc.; Nana's daughter; Kayleigh's mother; A tiny elegant old woman; Had a fine-boned face, blue eyes and long white hair braided in a regal crown around her head; Had a touch of mental coercion; Was 88 years old when she died but she looked like she was 60 because she's been nibbling on a Fae for decades
• Cruce: "War" - Unseelie prince; Masqueraded as "V'lane", a Seelie prince for 100,000s years; Has long black hair, bronzed skin, iridescent eyes and black wings; He was said to have cursed the Sifting Silvers but it was actually the other three Unseelie Princes; Was imprisoned by the Unseelie King in a block of ice beneath the Sidhe-seers abbey after he contained the book.
• Death: Unseelie prince
• Pestilence: Unseelie prince
• Famine: Unseelie prince
• Unseelie King: "King of Darkness" - King of the Unseelie of the Tuatha Dé Danaan, Court of Darkness; Aoibheal's long-ago consort; Is many hundreds of thousands of years old
• Aoibheal: (Ah-veel) Former High Queen of the Seelie, Court of the Light; The Unseelie King's long-ago consort/concubine; Is beautiful with silver hair and exotic almond-shaped, iridescent eyes in a pale face; Her skin is always dusted with gold; Is nearly 60,000 years old; Was actually the human concubine that caused the Unseelie King to experiment and create the Unseelie
• Lord Master: "Darroc" - "LM" - An evil being that was hunting for the Sinsar Dubh; Former Elder of the Tuatha Dé Danaan High Council; Was made human as punishment for his crimes against Adam Black and Queen Aoibheal; Was Alina's lover; Had shimmering copper hair, streaked with gold that falls to his waist; Was tall and very muscular; Looked to be around 30 years old; His skin was tanned gold and smooth; Had strange copper eyes and a long scar running down his left cheek, from cheekbone to the corner of his mouth; He was the leader of the Unseelie army
• Velvet: Seelie Tuatha Dé Danaan; Is tall and gracefully muscled; Is stunning with velvety-skin dusted with gold, sleek golden hair and iridescent eyes and talks too much.
• R'jan: Self-named King of the Seelie, Court of the Light; Has golden hair
• Rocky O'Bannion: "Roark O'Bannion" - Was a very wealthy mobster; Derek's brother; Sean's cousin; Born Irish Catholic and dirt-poor; A former champion boxer; Suddenly became rich after both the Halloran and O'Kierney, rival mob families were wiped out in one single night; Was a tall, powerfully built man with short, thick black hair and dark, heavy-lidded eyes; Was killed by the Shades after Mac and Barrons stole the Spear of Destiny from him and he came after them

Quotes edit see section history

• “Music is the stuff of the cosmos. Imagine a world without melody of any kind. No birds singing. No crickets chirping. No tectonic plates shifting. It really is about the fat lady singing. If she stops-”

  The Book of Rain

• “One day, kid, you’ll be willing to mortgage your fucking soul for somebody.”

  Ryodan

• “Despite all the swaggering you do, you don’t want anybody to see you. Not really see you. Invisa-girl. That’s who you want to be. I wonder why.”

  Ryodan

• “There are some secrets, Dani O'Malley, that you learn only by participating.”

  Ryodan

• “Kid, Batman needs Robin.”

  Ryodan

• “Oh, whose fecking comic book is this?" I explode. "That's my line.”

  Danielle (Dani) O'Malley

• “I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.”

  Ryodan

• “If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time.”

  Kat & Sean's vows to eachother

• “Holy hurrying hurricane, how'd you get next to me so fast?”

  Danielle (Dani) O'Malley

• “Teenage years are a great big clusterfuck of insecurity and confusion and hunger. Try to survive them without getting yourself killed.”

  MacKayla (Mac) Lane

• “There can be no sound without movement. There can be no movement without sound. There is no stasis in music, only change. It could just as easily have been called the Song of Destruction. Seems someone was feeling optimistic on naming day.”

  The Book of Rain

• “The more excited I get, the more I vibrate." "Now there's a thought," Lor says. "If you mean what I think you mean, you want to shut the fuck up and never think it again," Ryodan says.”

  Dani, Lor & Ryodan

• “The unknown is always scarier than the known. I got a Mega-sized imagination, and it can do a real number on me.”

  Danielle (Dani) O'Malley

• “If you go outside, you will be killed. If you make noise, you will be sent outside. Don't piss me off.”

  Ryodan

• “No lullabies to lay the children to rest. No hymns to mourn the dying. No blues to ease the pain. No rock and roll to live by. Without music we would all be Sociopaths or dead.”

  The Book of Rain

Setting & Locations edit see section history

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• Dublin, Ireland
• Faery
• The Hall Of All Days: The central hub of the Silvers.
• Arlington Abbey: Sidhe-seer compound outside of Dublin
• Chester's: Dublin's underground hot spot for partying and scoring whatever your fantasy is and angling for a shot at immortality. Owned and operated by Ryodan; Neutral ground; Located at 939 Revemal Street; Former gathering place of the rich, bored, and beautiful.
• Barrons Books and Baubles: "BB&B" - in Dublin
• The Dreaming: That elusive, much-sought, everforgotten realm where mortals occasionally brush pale shoulder to iridescent wing with the fairy. That place where mortals would be astonished to know battles are won and lost, universes born, and true love preordained.
• General Post Office
• Scotland
• Highlands
• Australia
• Trinity College: in Dublin
• Dublin Castle: Headquarters for the Guardians
• Halfpenny Bridge
• Andes Mountains
• Paradise Point
• Temple Bar District: in Dublin
• The Temple Bar
• Ashford, Georgia
• Bartlett Building
• The White Mansion
• England
• France
• Germany
• Spain
• Poland
• Romania
• Greece
• Morocco
• Norway
• Cock and Bull Tavern

Organizations edit see section history

• Barrons' Eight: Eight men that are just like Barrons and answer to him; They are not human but not Fae; They are Ryodan, Fade, Lor, Kasteo & four others not yet mentioned by name
• An Garda Síochána: "Guardians of the Peace" - Dublin Police
• The Guardians: What the Garda have begin calling themselves under Inspector Jayne's leadership as they fight to protect Dublin's remaining citizens.
• NDGU: "New Dublin Green-Up" - It's devoted to making the city green again—fertilizing the soil, filling the planters, putting down sod, and eventually bringing the parks and commons back to life.
• Post Haste, Inc.: "PHI" - A Dublin courier service that served as a cover for the sidhe-seers coalition. Rowena was in charge.
• The Haven: High council of sidhe-seers. Once selected by popular vote, now chosen by the Grand Mistress for their loyalty to her and the cause. They were the only ones besides Rowena who knew what was being kept beneath the abbey. Some of them died and/or disappeared when the Book escaped twenty-some years ago.
• WeCare: Organization supposed to be like the Red Cross here in America. Mac's mom Rainey Lane works/volunteers for them

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Glossary edit see section history

• AWC: "After the Wall Crash"
• The Dani Daily: "TDD" - A newspaper that Dani puts out three times a week. New slogan is "ICARE".
• Dani Does Dublin: the ABC's of the AWC: "DDD" - Dani's book
• Dark Zone: An area that has been taken over by the Shades. During the day it looks like your everyday abandoned, run-down neighborhood. Once night falls, it's a death trap.
• Death-By-Sex Fae: (e.g., Cruce/V'lane) A Fae that is so sexually "potent" a human dies from intercourse with it unless the Fae protects the human from the full impact of its deadly eroticism. This caste of Fae springs only from royal lines. They can do three things: protect the human completely and give them the most incredible sex of their life, protect them from dying and turn them Pri-ya, or kill them with sex. They can sift space.
• Druid: In pre-Christian Celtic society, a Druid presided over divine worship, legislative and judicial matters, philosophy, and education of elite youth to their order. Druids were believed to be privy to the secrets of the gods, including issues pertaining to the manipulation of physical matter, space, and even time. The old Irish "Drui" means magician, wizard, diviner. The Druid power of Voice is a way of speaking with many voices that cannot be disobeyed. Christian MacKeltar descends from a long, ancient bloodline of Druids.
• The Dublin Daily: A newspaper imitating "The Dani Daily" and putting it down. Their slogan is "WeCARE".
• Fae: (fay) See also Tuatha De Danaan. Divided into two courts, the Seelie or Light Court, and the Unseelie or Dark Court. Both courts have different castes of Fae, with the four Royal Houses occupying the highest caste of each. The Seelie Queen and her chosen consort rule the Light Court. The Unseelie King and his current concubine govern the Dark. Iron has some kind of effect on them. Weird that on the periodic table, iron is Fe.
• Freeze-Frame: The way Dani moves. She calls it freeze-framing, as she blips from place to place so fast it gives you motion sickness.
• Glamour: Illusion cast by the Fae to camouflage their true appearance. The more powerful the Fae, the more difficult it is to penetrate its disguise. Average humans see only what the Fae wants them to see and are subtly repelled from bumping into or brushing against it by small perimeter of spatial distortion that is part of the Fae glamour.
• The Gray Woman: The Gray Man's female counterpart. Unlike the Gray Man, she doesn't leave her victims alive. A sifter.
• Hallows: Eight ancient relics of immense power fashioned by the Fae: four light and four dark. The Light or Seelie Hallows are the stone, the spear, the sword, and the cauldron. The Dark or Unseelie Hallows are the amulet, the box, the Silvers, and the book (Sinsar Dubh or Dark Book). The Unseelie King made all the Dark Hallows. The king created the Silvers for his concubine, to keep her ageless and give her realms to explore. He created the amulet so she could reshape reality. He gave her the box for her loneliness.
• IFP: "Interdimensional Fairy Pothole" - These things drive me nuts! When the walls came down on Halloween, parts of Faery splintered into parts of our world, and now, if you're not careful, you can end up walking or driving into one abruptly and without warning. You don't know what's in one until you get inside. They're hard to get back out of. Someone has been―cutting them loose and they've begun drifting on the wind, making them even harder to avoid. There are IFPs inside the network of the Silvers, too. When it was cursed it, the collision of realms caused similarly fractured realities. According to Ryodan, IFPs are static microcosms and can be mapped. Some contain dolmens to our world. Most contain other IFPs. One can hop from world to world through them. It's pretty much a mess.
• MacHalo: Mac's invention. Very cool. A bike helmet covered with LED lights. It's the ultimate in Shade protection.
• Papa Roach: Unseelie. Is three to four feet tall, with a shiny brownish-purplish segmented body, six arms, two legs, and the smallest head you ever saw, like the size of a walnut, with little fish-egg eyes. It can break down into segments that are the size of roaches that crawl inside your clothes, and get under your skin—LITERALLY!
• Pri-Ya: A human addicted to Fae sex.
• Rhino-Boys: Ugly, gray-skinned Fae who resemble rhinoceroses with bumpy, protruding foreheads, barrellike bodies, stumpy arms and legs, lipless gashes of mouths, and jutting underbites. They are lower mid-level caste Unseelie thugs dispatched primarily as watchdogs for high-ranking Fae. They taste horrible. They cannot sift space.
• Royal Hunters: Thought to be a mid-level caste of Unseelie but they are not Fae. Militantly sentient, they resemble the classic depiction of the devil, with cloven hooves, horns, long satyrlike faces, leathery wings, fiery orange eyes, and tails. Seven to ten feet tall, they are capable of extraordinary speed on both hoof and wing. Former primary function: sidhe-seer exterminators. Threat assessment: kills. They have a thirty to forty-foot wingspan and a degree of telepathic abilities. They are mercenary to the core and serve a master only so long as it benefits them.
• See You In Faery!: Catch phrase for sycophantic human sex kittens who will trade anything and everything for the high of eating Unseelie flesh. They believe if they eat enough, it will make them immortal and they'll get to go to Faery, too. Said in the most annoyingly chirpy tone possible!!!
• Seelie: The "light" or "fairer" court of the Tuatha Dé Danaan was governed by the Seelie Queen, Aoibheal. The Seelie cannot touch the Unseelie Hallows. The Unseelie cannot touch Seelie Hallows. The true queen of the Fae is long dead, killed by the Unseelie King, and with her died the Song of Making.
• Shades: One of the lowest castes of Unseelie. Sentient, but barely. They hunger—they feed. They cannot bear direct light and hunt only at night. They steal life in the manner the Gray Man steals beauty, draining their victims with vampiric swiftness, leaving behind a pile of clothing and a husk of dehydrated human matter. Threat assessment: kills. They’re changing, evolving, learning. They've learned to work together and shape themselves into barriers.
• Shade-Busters: Dani's cherry bomb invention to get rid of Shades
• Sidhe-Seer: (SHE-seer) A person Fae magic doesn't work on, capable of seeing past the illusions or "glamour" cast by the Fae to the true nature that lies beneath. Some can also see Tabh'rs, hidden portals between realms. Others can sense Seelie and Unseelie objects of power. Each sidhe-seer is different, with varying degrees of resistance to the Fae. Some are limited, some are advanced with multiple "special powers". Some, like Dani, are superfast.
• Sifting: Fae method of locomotion, occurs at speed of thought.
• Sifting Silvers or Silvers: Unseelie or Dark Hallow, an elaborate maze of mirrors created by the Unseelie King once used as the primary method of Fae travel between realms, until Cruce cast the forbidden curse into the silvered corridors. Now no Fae dares enter the Silvers.
• Sinsar Dubh: (She-suh-DOO) Unseelie or Dark Hallow belonging to the Tuatha Dé Danaan. Written in a language known only to the most ancient of their kind, it is said to hold the deadliest of all magic within its encrypted pages. Brought to Ireland by the Tuatha Dé during the invasions written of in the pseudo history Leabhar Gabhåla, it was stolen along with the other Dark Hallows, and found its way into the world of Man. Authored over a million years ago by the Dark King of the Unseelie. It is a book but it lives. It is aware. --- Addendum: It was absorbed into Cruce. He is now the Sinsar Dubh.
• Song of Making: It is life. It is that from which the Fae come. It is the ultimate power to create, to destroy, depending on how it is used. It sings into existence . . . change.
• Spear of Luisne: Seelie or Light Hallow (a.k.a. Spear of Luin, Spear of Longinus, Spear of Destiny, Flaming Spear): The spear used to pierce Jesus Christ's side at his crucifixion. Not of human origin; it is a Tuatha Dé Danaan Light Hallow, and one of few items capable of killing a Fae—regardless of rank or power. It kills anything Fae and if something is only part Fae, it kills part of it, horribly.
• Sword of Lugh: Seelie or Light Hallow, also known as the Sword of Light, a Seelie Hallow capable of killing Fae, both Seelie and Unseelie.
• Tabh'rs: (TAH-vr) Fae doorways or portals between realms, often hidden in everyday human objects. (i.e. cactus in the dessert)
• Tuatha Dé Danaan: or Tuatha Dé (TUA day dhanna or Tua DAY) (See Fae above) A highly advanced race that came to Earth from another world, comprising the Seelie and Unseelie.
• Unseelie: The "dark" or "fouler" court of the Tuatha Dé Danaan. The Unseelie were confined for hundreds of thousands of years in a supposedly inescapable prison. The Unseelie cannot touch the Seelie Hallows.
• Unseelie Princes: Death, Pestilence, Famine, and War.
• ZEW: "Zombie Eating Wraith" - They look like anorexic wraiths that might drift around graveyards, breaking open coffins and feeding on rotting corpses. They're draped in black cloaks with hoods . They hover and glide just above the floor.
• The Hoar Frost King: "HFK" - "Ice Monster" - "Iceman" - "Gh'luk-ra d'Jhai" - Unseelie; A giant, oblong blob looking thing that breaths freezing cold fog and ices everything within the fogs reach instantly. It appears out of a shimmering disturbance in the air and then disappears into it within seconds. It hovers in the air.
• The Crimson Hag: Unseelie; Bloody, matted hair frames her ice-white face with black holes for eyes. She has fangs and wears a gown of guts from her victims.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Shadowfever, and followed by Burned: A Fever Novel.

Followed by Burned: A Fever Novel.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Karen Marie Moning (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3613.O527 I34 2012
• Dewey: 813.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

"If I had to categorize it, I would say it straddles the line between YA and adult uneasily. I don’t pull any punches. It may be controversial in some ways. But whose teen years weren’t? LOL!" --Karen Marie Moning (Violence, foul language, and sexual situations.)

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
• Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
• Books › Literature & Fiction

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Karen Marie Moning: Official Site
• Karen Marie Moning: Fever Series Page
• Sidhe-Seers, Inc.: For additional information about the Fever series and the world of the Fae.

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