num_pages: 337
description: Lila Black is off with the faeries . . .Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves demons ghosts and elementalsand their worlds are open to us. Things have been different for Special Agent Lila Black tortured and magic-scarred by elves rebuilt by humans into a half-robot part-AI nuclear-fueled walking arsenal and carrying the essence of a dead elfin necromancer in her chest sometimes she has trouble figuring out who she is.And a mission to the world of the fae may not help her work it out.The fae are beautiful glamorous exotic and talented ruled by their king and queens summer and winter courts. Their inventions make food taste better make beer divine and bring sparkle and mischief to the worldbut thats only the surface. And Lila is being sent in at the deep end to the deepest darkest levels of on the primal level nothing about the fae is glamorous at all.In a winter-locked raw and primitive world Lila has to deal with the fae at their most basic levels as tricksters and dealmakersand the only deals worth making are bloody ones. If Lilas quest is to succeed and if she is ever to escape Faerie the right question must be asked the right sacrifice must be made and the right quarry must be hunted down on the winter solstice. All of which is difficult when the only aides Lila brought to Faerie are her friends . . .Justina Robsons new series combines her trademark themes of identity and reality magic and technology break-neck plots a mischievous sense of fun and a seriously sexy new heroine.
language: English
title: Going Under
publisher: Pyr