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  • Bibliography:
    93 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2009
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Alchemical Journeys

1 - Middlegame (May-2019)
2 - Seasonal Fears (May-2022)
3 - Tidal Creatures (Jun-2024)

Ghost Roads

1 - Sparrow Hill Road (May-2014)
2 - The Girl in the Green Silk Gown (Jul-2018)
3 - Angel of the Overpass (May-2021)

InCryptid

1 - Discount Armageddon (Mar-2012)
2 - Midnight Blue-Light Special (Mar-2013)
3 - Half-Off Ragnarok (Mar-2014)
3.5 - Jammed (Apr-2014)
4 - Pocket Apocalypse (Mar-2015)
5 - Chaos Choreography (Mar-2016)
6 - Magic for Nothing (Mar-2017)
7 - Tricks for Free (Mar-2018)
8 - That Ain't Witchcraft (Mar-2019)
9 - Imaginary Numbers (Feb-2020)
10 - Calculated Risks (Mar-2021)
11 - Spelunking Through Hell (Mar-2022)
12 - Backpacking through Bedlam (Mar-2023)
13 - Aftermarket Afterlife (Mar-2024)
14 - Installment Immortality (Mar-2025)

Indexing

1 - Indexing (Jan-2014)
2 - Reflections (Jan-2016)

October Daye

1 - Rosemary and Rue (Sep-2009)
2 - A Local Habitation (Mar-2010)
3 - An Artificial Night (Sep-2010)
4 - Late Eclipses (Mar-2011)
4.5 - Through This House (Aug-2011)
5 - One Salt Sea (Sep-2011)
6 - Ashes of Honor (Sep-2012)
7 - Chimes at Midnight (Sep-2013)
7.5 - Full of Briars (Aug-2016)
8 - The Winter Long (Sep-2014)
9 - A Red-Rose Chain (Sep-2015)
10 - Once Broken Faith (Sep-2016)
11 - The Brightest Fell (Sep-2017)
12 - Night and Silence (Sep-2018)
13 - The Unkindest Tide (Sep-2019)
14 - A Killing Frost (Sep-2020)
15 - When Sorrows Come (Sep-2021)
16 - Be the Serpent (Sep-2022)
17 - Sleep No More (Sep-2023)
18 - The Innocent Sleep (Oct-2023)

Velveteen

1 - Velveteen vs. The Junior Super-Patriots (Dec-2012)
2 - Velveteen vs. The Multiverse (Aug-2013)
3 - Velveteen vs. the Seasons (May-2016)

Wayward Children

1 - Every Heart a Doorway (Apr-2016)
2 - Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Jun-2017)
3 - Beneath the Sugar Sky (Jan-2018)
4 - In an Absent Dream (Jan-2019)
5 - Come Tumbling Down (Jan-2020)
6 - Across the Green Grass Fields (Jan-2021)
7 - Where the Drowned Girls Go (Jan-2022)
8 - Lost in the Moment and Found (Jan-2023)
9 - Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Jan-2024)
10 - Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Jan-2025)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

Indexing (Jan-2014)

Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

Indexing (Jan-2014)

Marvel's X-Men

Age Of X-Man: The Amazing Nightcrawler (Sep-2019)

Book List in Order: 93 titles



  • The world of Faerie never disappeared: it merely went into hiding, continuing to exist parallel to our own. Secrecy is the key to Faerie's survival -- but no secret can be kept forever, and when the fae and mortal worlds collide, changelings are born...



  • October "Toby" Oaye is a changeling, the daughter of Amandine of the fae and a mortal man. like her mother. she is gifted in blood magic. able to read what has happened to a person through a mere taste of blood. Half-human, half-fae, outsiders from ...



  • Changeling knight in the court of the Duke of Shadowed Hills. October "Toby" Daye has survived numerous challenges that would destroy fae and mortal alike. Now Toby must take on a nightmarish new assignment. Someone is stealing both fae and mortal c...



  • Two years ago, October "Toby" Daye believed she could leave the world of Faerie behind. She was wrong. Now she finds herself in the service of Duke Sylvester Torquill, sharing an apartment with her Fetch, and maintaining an odd truce with Tybalt, the...



  • There's nothing like home renovation for finding skeletons in the closet or otherwordly portals in the attic. Now, for any homeowner who's ever wondered, "What's that creaking sound?" or fans of "how to" television who'd like a little unreality mixed...



  • October "Toby" Daye is settling into her new role as Countess of Goldengreen. She's actually dating again, and she's taken on Quentin as her squire. So, of course, it's time for things to take a turn for the worse. Someone has kidnapped the sons o...



  • Ghoulies. Ghosties. Long-legged beasties. Things that go bump in the night... The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity-and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being t...



  • It’s been almost a year since October “Toby” Daye averted a war, gave up a county, and suffered personal losses that have left her wishing for a good day’s sleep. She’s tried to focus on her responsibilities -- training Quentin, upholding ...



  • "How dare you? I never asked for you to hunt me down " No, Velma Martinez hadn't. But when you had once been Velveteen, child super-heroine and one of The Junior Super Patriots, West Coast Division, you were never going to be free, even if your on...






  • Cryptid, noun: 1. Any creature whose existence has been suggested but not proven scientifically. Term officially coined by cryptozoologist John E. Wall in 1983. 2. That thing that's getting ready to eat your head. 3. See also: "monster." The Pr...



  • Come one! Come all! Witness Gin Blanco -- aka the Elemental Assassin, aka the Spider -- go toe to toe against the Esmerelda the Amazing's Wheel of Death and some dangerously creepy clowns! Only at The Carnival of Wondrous Wonders!A story from the for...



  • He was the last great hero of his generation. Velma Martinez Velveteen had never intended to be a great hero, but she was out of choices. "Hello, Jolly Roger." "Hello, bunny-eared girl who's taken over my ship. Have you come to collect the bounty ...



  • Things are starting to look up for October "Toby" Daye. She's training her squire, doing her job, and has finally allowed herself to grow closer to the local King of Cats. It seems like her life may finally be settling down...at least until dead chan...



  • “Never underestimate the power of a good story.” Good advice…especially when a story can kill you. For most people, the story of their lives is just that: the accumulation of time, encounters, and actions into a cohesive whole. But for a...



  • What do gorgons, basilisks, and frogs with feathers all have in common? They're all considered mythological by modern science, and some people are working very hard to keep them that way. Alexander Price is a member of a cryptozoological lineage that...



  • Welcome to the wide world of paranormal pastimes, where striking out might strike you dead. Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner are your announcers for this collection of the most peculiar plays ever made—including a story featuring ...



  • Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross -- a man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended to use her death to pay the price of his immortality. Trouble was, he didn’t ask Rose...



  • "The trouble with wanting to do the right thing is that frequently the right thing today is the wrong thing for tomorrow, or the wrong thing for the people who are standing between you and your perfect, platonic future. The wild was the wrong place f...



  • Toby thought she understood her own past; she thought she knew the score. She was wrong. It's time to learn the truth. ...






  • THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US. The SymboGen-designed parasites were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde. Now those ...



  • There’s more to Sookie Stackhouse than you ever knew…

    The #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris spawned a hit TV show and captivated fans around the world -- including other authors. Now this group of w...



  • Alexander Price has survived gorgons, basilisks, and his own family -- no small feat, considering that his family includes two telepaths, a reanimated corpse, and a colony of talking, pantheistic mice. Still, he’s starting to feel like he’s got ...



  • Things are looking up. For the first time in what feels like years, October "Toby" Daye has been able to pause long enough to take a breath and look at her life -- and she likes what she sees. She has friends. She has allies. She has a squire to t...



  • 16 Journeys on the Dark Streets of Urban Fantasy. Original stories by Seanan McGuire, Joanne Anderton, Alan Baxter, Nathan Burrage, Dirk Flinthart, Rebecca Fung, Stephanie Gunn, Kelly Hoolihan, Kathleen Jennings, Pete Kempshall, Martin Livings, Antho...



  • “For her to love me, she had to be willing to kill me. Anything else would show that her heart was untrue.” The struggle against not-so-charming storybook narratives isn’t the only complicating factor in Henrietta “Henry” Marchen’s lif...



  • Destiny, Noun:    1. The inevitable or irresistible course of events.    2. The inescapable future.    3. See also “Screwed.” Verity Price is back on the West Coast and getting back into the swing of the family business: cryptozoolog...



  • Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children No Solicitations No Visitors No Quests Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and i...



  • A doorway opens in mid-air. The body of a woman falls to the ground and lies there unmoving as the door slams shut behind her, dissolving like confetti into the wind.As the grass beneath her slowly dies, Velma Martinez â€" Velveteen â€" once archite...



  • Tales of guardian spirits and divine powers by Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Alethea Kontis, Laura Anne Gilman, Scott Edelman and more. Guardian spirits. Divine presences. Demonic powers. Ghosts. The concept of "genius loci" is indeed an anci...






  • New York Times-bestselling October Daye series • Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire • "Top of my urban-paranormal series list!"  -- Felicia DayMeet Quentin Sollys. Squire. Hockey fan. Canadian. And Crown Prince to the entire ...



  • What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars? As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens … and what they’ve left behind. Alien artifacts: what might they reveal about us ...



  • Werewolves rule the night in urban fantasy, but everyone knows there are other were-creatures out there just as dangerous and deadly, if not as common, each with their own issues as they struggle to fit into -- or prey upon -- society. What about the...



  • Politics have never been October "Toby" Daye's strong suit. When she traveled to the Kingdom of Silences to prevent them from going to war with her home, the Kingdom of the Mists, she wasn't expecting to return with a cure for elf-shot and a whole ne...



  • When her sister Patty died, Jenna blamed herself. When Jenna died, she blamed herself for that, too. Unfortunately Jenna died too soon. Living or dead, every soul is promised a certain amount of time, and when Jenna passed she found a heavy debt of t...



  • Improbable, adjective: 1. Not very likely to happen; not probable. 2. Probably not a very good idea anyway. 3. See also "bad plan." As the youngest of the three Price children, Antimony is used to people not expecting much from her. She's been ...



  • Behind the Mask is a multi-author collection with stories by award-winning authors Kelly Link, Cat Rambo, Carrie Vaughn, Seanan McGuire, Lavie Tidhar, Sarah Pinsker, Keith Rosson, Kate Marshall, Chris Large and others. It is partially a prose nod...



  • Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. This is the story of what happened first… Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter―polite and ...



  • Everyone has their eyes set on the black depths of space…but what about the deep abysses of the ocean? What dark monsters swim unseen beneath the waves? What ancient wonders lie hidden, waiting to be discovered? What sirens call, either here on Ear...



  • For once, everything in October “Toby” Daye’s life seems to be going right. There have been no murders or declarations of war for her to deal with, and apart from the looming specter of her Fetch planning her bachelorette party, she’s had no ...






  • The newest book based on the hit Weird West RPG franchise Deadlands! Step right up to see the oddities and marvels of The Blackstone Family Circus and Travelling Wonder Show! Gasp at pit wasps the size of a man’s forearm. Beware the pumpkin-head...



  • A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List "Every Heart a Doorway" "Beneath the Suga...



  • The seventh book in the funny and fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans. Penance, noun: 1. Pun...



  • One man’s insurgent is another man’s freedom fighter… From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to The Hunger Games, everyone enjoys a good rebellion. There is something compelling about a group (or individual) who throws caution to the wind and rises ...



  • The second book in the Ghost Roads series returns to the highways of America, where hitchhiking ghost Rose Marshall continues her battle with her killer--the immortal Bobby Cross. Once and twice and thrice around, Put your heart into the ground. ...



  • Recommended by Booklist, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Locus, and Foreword Reviews.

    Journey with twenty-one speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine the dreams, struggles, and triu...



  • Now in hardcover, the twelfth installment of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times-bestselling Toby Daye urban fantasy series!Things are not okay.In the aftermath of Amandine's latest betrayal, October "Toby" Daye's fragile self-made family is on the ve...



  • A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List EVERY HEART A DOORWAY This fourth entry a...



  • The eighth book in the funny and fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans. Crossroads, noun: 1. ...



  • NEW WARRIORS IN AN ANCIENT FIGHT…The ongoing battle against the immortal Elder Gods enters the modern age. Magic, mayhem, and murder no longer reign in dusty books discovered in decrepit libraries. Today’s monsters can be called by more than unca...






  • New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in the standalone fantasy, Middlegame.

    Meet Roger. Skille...



  • Collects Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider #1-4 And Spider-Geddon: Ghost-Spider Video Comic #1. Gwen Stacy makes her sensational return! The Spider-Woman of Earth-65 is picking up right where she left off, fighting crime in her home reality -- unaware it s...



  • When Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley stumble upon several muddy, spiky, cactus kittens in the woods, they take on the sacred mission of bringing the kittens back to their home. However, when they reach the garden menageries and its Dryad tender, t...



  • In the original Tor.com story Any Way the Wind Blows, New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire presents a sweet tribute to Manhattan's iconic Flatiron building--celebrating the longtime home of Tor Books as the publisher bids farewell for new...



  • Collects Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider #5-10. A break from the action?! In the aftermath of SPIDER-GEDDON, Gwen Stacy is ready for things to calm down -- but when is life ever calm for a teenage super hero? Mary Jane’s perfectionist vision for their ...



  • Collects Age Of X-Man: The Amazing Nightcrawler #1-5. Kurt Wagner is the star of the Age of X-Man! From the Munich circus to Hollywood Boulevard, everyone loves Nightcrawler -- the world’s biggest celebrity/super hero! And juggling Kurt’s respo...



  • Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come. Those people w...



  • From fairy tale forest to gloomy gothic moor, from gleaming epidemiologist’s lab to the sandy shores of Neverland, Seanan McGuire’s short fiction has been surprising, delighting, confusing, and transporting her readers since 2009. Now, for the fi...



  • Collects Fearless (2019) #1-4. The fiercest ladies of the Marvel Universe -- on and off the page! Straight off her silver-screen debut, Captain Marvel takes the world by storm! And speaking of the weather, Storm of the X-Men faces a problem only a ...




  • When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister―whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice―back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted...



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  • Collects Ghost-Spider (2019) #1-5. Gwen Stacy makes her way to the Marvel Universe! With a cloud of infamy hanging over her head in her home dimension of Earth-65, Gwen now travels to the Prime MU for super hero action…and school! The newest studen...



  • The ninth book in the fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans. Sarah Zellaby has always been in an ...



  • When October is informed that Simon Torquill -- legally her father, due to Faerie's archaic marriage traditions -- must be invited to her wedding or risk the ceremony throwing the Kingdom in the Mists into political turmoil, she finds herself set...



  • A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields, a standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-wining Wayward Children series. "Welcome to the Hooflands. We'...



  • Collects Ghost-Spider (2019) #6-10. Gwen Stacy lives two lives! Hopping back and forth between her home of Earth-65 and the mainstream Marvel Universe, she’s the happening hero known as Ghost-Spider! But two worlds means twice the problems, and Gwe...



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  • The tenth book in the fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans.Just when Sarah Zellaby, adopted Price c...



  • The third book of the Ghost Roads series returns to the highways of America, where hitchhiking ghost Rose Marshall continues her battle with her killer -- the immortal Bobby Cross.Lady of shadows, keeper of changes, plant the seeds of faith within me...



  • From undercover robots to shape shifting soldiers, the twenty-one stories in this wide-ranging anthology explore what happens when the mask comes off. We all wear masks, whether they are the literal costumes of superheroes and bank robbers or the met...



  • Toby's getting married! Now in paperback, the fifteenth novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times-bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series.It's hard to be a hero. There's always something needing October "Toby" Daye's attention, and her own de...



  • In Where the Drowned Girls Go, the next addition to Seanan McGuire's beloved Wayward Children series, students at an anti-magical school rebel against the oppressive faculty "Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always ad...



  • Seanan McGuire's New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated urban fantasy InCryptid series continues with the eleventh book following the Price family, cryptozoologists who study and protect the creatures living in secret all around us.Love,...



  • From New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears is the extraordinary companion novel to Middlegame.The king of winter and the queen of summer are dead. The fight for their crowns begins!Melanie has a destiny, though it isn’t t...



  • Jack Walcott was only twelve years old when she and her twin sister Jill, descended the impossible staircase and found herself in the Moors, a world of drowned gods and repugnant royals.After abandoning her sister to a vampire lord, and under the tut...



  • This new standalone tale offers a deeper look at the events in Dominaria, in an adventure that will push fan favorite planeswalker Ajani Goldmane to his limits. But does a steadfast, valiant protector have an unexpected dark side?...



  • Now in hardcover, the sixteenth novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times-bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series.October Daye is finally something she never expected to be: married. All the trials and turmoils and terrors of a hero’s life ...



  • Children have always disappeared under the right conditions -- slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere . . . else. Adventures are always interesting,...



  • Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best SeriesA 2023 Indie Next Pick!A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Inductee! A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series from Seanan...



  • Seanan McGuire's New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated urban fantasy InCryptid series continues with the twelfth book following the Price family, cryptozoologists who study and protect the creatures living in secret all around us.Reunio...



  • In this deluxe hardcover collection, experience two standalone tales each spotlighting a beloved Magic: The Gathering character. First, delve into Ajani Goldmane’s past adventures and uncover surprises, including what happened when the steadfast, v...



  • Collects Spider-Geddon: Ghost-Spider Video Comic (2018) #1, Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider (2018) #1-10. SPIDER-GEDDON rocks Gwen Stacy's world! As her fellow Spiders battle the vicious Inheritors, Gwen finds herself exiled to a parallel dimension! Can sh...



  • The 17th novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series.October is very happy with her life as the second daughter of her pureblood parents, Amandine and Simon Torquill. Born to be the changeling handmaid to...



  • The 18th novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times bestselling October Daye urban fantasy series.For one bright, shining moment, Tybalt, King of Cats, had everything he had ever wanted. He was soon to set his crown aside; he had married the woman h...



  • A USA Today Bestseller!Portals and danger, and a girl who can find both in the next book in the Hugo and Nebula Awardâ€"Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire.Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West's School...



  • Two-time finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series"Kind of like taking a tour through a very deadly theme park made up of alternating parts awesome and terrifying." -- ReactorSeanan McGuire's New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominate...



  • 02/26/2024Hugo and Nebula Award winner McGuire’s staggering second limited-edition collection with Subterranean takes a somewhat darker tone than 2019’s Laughter at the Academy, but these 24 stories still offer a sense of twisted whimsy a...



  • New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire takes us back to the world of the award-winning Alchemical Journeys series in this action-packed follow-up to Middlegame and Seasonal Fears.Every night, a Moon shines down on the Impossible City…All ...



  • Collects Ghost-Spider #1-10. SPIDER-GEDDON rocks Gwen Stacy's world! Trapped in a parallel dimension as her friends and fellow Spiders battle for their lives, what can Gwen do to stop the Inheritors from wreaking havoc across the Web of Life and Dest...



  • Wanda and Peter Parker embrace great responsibility in the next adventure of an epic multiversal series that reimagines iconic Marvel origin stories.So many worlds, so little time. Infinite possibilities, creating infinite realities. Long have I watc...



  • Giant turtles, impossible ships, and tidal rivers ridden by a Drowned girl in search of a family in the latest in the bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire.Nadya had three mothers: the one who bore her,...



  • Seanan McGuire’s New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated InCryptid series continues with a whirlwind adventure....After four generations of caring for the Price family, Mary Dunlavy has more than earned a break from the ongoing war with...



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    SOMETIMES THE BIGGEST HORRORS COME IN THE SMALLEST PACKAGES… There's nothing better than a short, sharp slice of flash fiction to get the mind working. 99 Tiny Terrors is an anthology that the reader can dip into for something deliciously...


Award-Winning Books by Seanan McGuire

Down Among the Sticks and Bones
2018 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults
Every Heart a Doorway
2016 Nebula Award -- Novella
2017 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults
2017 Hugo Award -- Novella
2017 Locus Award -- Novella
Middlegame
2020 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults
2020 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
Rosemary and Rue
2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Seanan McGuire has published 93 books.

The next book by Seanan McGuire, Installment Immortality, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue, was published in September 2009.

Yes. Seanan McGuire has 7 series.