title: Midnight Never Come (The Onyx Court, Book 1)
author:  Marie Brennan 
description: Starred Review. Stunningly conceived and exquisitely achieved, this rich historical fantasy portrays the Elizabethan court 30 years into the reign of the Virgin Queen, often called Gloriana. Far below ground, her dark counterpart, heartless Invidiana, rules England's fae. Brennan (<i>Warrior and Witch</i>) pairs handsome young courtier Michael Deven, an aspiring agent under spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham, with bewitching fae Lune, who attempts to avoid Invidiana's wrath by infiltrating Walsingham's network in mortal guise. History and fantasy blend seamlessly as Deven and Lune tread their precarious tightropes between loyalty and betrayal. Brennan's myriad fantastical creations ring as true as her ear for Elizabethan and faerie dialogue. With intriguing flashbacks to historical events and a cast of deftly drawn characters both real and imagined, Brennan fleshes out the primal conflict of love and honor pitted against raging ambition and lust for power in a glittering age when mortals could well be such fools as to sell their souls forever. <i>(June)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  [MARIE
  BRENNAN](http://us.macmillan.com/author/mariebrennan?utm_source=ebook&utm_medium=adcard&utm_term=ebookreaders&utm_content=mariebrennan_authorpage_macdotcom&utm_campaign=9780765392169)
  is an anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic
  fields for material. She is the author of several acclaimed fantasy novels
  including A Natural History of Dragons; The Onyx Court Series: Midnight Never
  Come, In Ashes Lie, A Star Shall Fall, and With Fate Conspire; Warrior; and
  Witch. Her short stories have appeared in more than a dozen print and online
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  Dear Sirs—
  
  
  I was fascinated