From the book description :- Ever since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry Dresden has been down and out in Chicago. He can't pay his rent. He's alienating his friends. He can't even recall the last time he took a shower. The only professional wizard in the phone book has become a desperate man. And just when it seems things can't get any worse, in saunters the Winter Queen of Faerie. She has an offer Harry can't refuse if he wants to free himself of the supernatural hold his faerie godmother has over him - and hopefully end his run of bad luck. All he has to do is find out who murdered the Summer Queen's right-hand man, the Summer Knight, and clear the Winter Queen's name. It seems simple enough, but Harry knows better than to get caught in the middle of faerie politics. Until he finds out that the fate of the entire world rests on his solving this case. No pressure or anything ...
In this, latest installment, Harry is in trouble with the White Council for starting the war with the Vampires of the Red Court. Many members want him sacrificed to the Vampires in appeasement for starting the war to bring a ceasefire and peace. Others think he was used by them deliberately to start the war and think that the White Council should fight. Harry is set a task by the council, as a test of his status as a Wizard. Failure and he will be delivered to the Vamps, success and, well, he keeps his Wizard status.
He is also hired by Mab, the Winter Queen (or faerie) to find out who killed the Summer Knight (the Knight of the Summer Queen) ! Strange, yes indeed. Harry gets drawn into a sinister plot to shift the balance of power between the Winter and Summer courts......but by who ? Billy and the werewolves are in this tale again along with some more new characters.
Another gripping (and somewhat more complex) story from Butcher.
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