FEVER in a Nutshell: The Players, Location, Stakes


The Players

  • MacKayla Lane, reluctant sidhe-seer, a person who can see into the hidden world of the ancient, immortal Fae. Able to sense and hunt the Dark Book of Magic known as the Sinsar Dubh. (Shee-sa-doo)
  • Jericho Barrons, bookstore owner, antiquities collector and not-quite human. Hunting the Sinsar Dubh.
  • V’lane, Seelie Prince, Queen of the Fae’s high consort, extremely sexual and erotic. Hunting the Sinsar Dubh.
  • Darroc, Lord Master, ex-Fae, liberator of the imprisoned Unseelie, the one who brings down the walls between Man and Fae. Hunting the Sinsar Dubh. Alina’s boyfriend. And murderer?
  • Christian MacKeltar, twenty-ish Scottish student at Trinity College, who works in the Ancient Languages Department but is really stationed there to keep an eye on Jericho Barrons.
  • Rowena, headmistress of the sidhe-seer organization. Protects the six major Irish sidhe-seer bloodlines, takes them in and trains them. She guarded the Sinsar Dubh, until it escaped.
  • Danielle Mega O’Malley, adolescent sidhe-seer with super-strength and speed. Outrageous, witty, resilient—and a stone-cold killer.
  • Inspector Jayne, raw-boned Irishman that tails Mac and eventually joins the fight against the Fae.
  • Alina Lane, Mac’s sister who was murdered while studying abroad at Trinity College.
  • Jack and Rainey Lane, Mac and Alina’s parents. While in Dublin, Mac discovers they are not her biological parents. She and Alina were adopted and part of the adoption agreement was a promise that the girls never be allowed to return to Ireland.
  • K’Vruck, the most ancient Royal Hunter
  • Fiona, aging beauty, runs Barrons Books and Baubles, is in love with Jericho Barrons.
  • Rocky O’Bannion, black Irish mobster and ex-boxer. Religious fanatic and antiquities collector. Has the Spear of Destiny (aka the Spear of Longinus that pierced Christ’s side) until Mac takes it from him.
  • Derek O’Bannion, Rocky’s younger brother who comes after Mac when she kills Rocky
  • Mallucé, aka John Johnstone, Jr. geeky son of billionaire parents until he kills them and comes back as the steampunk vampire Mallucé.
  • Concubine, The Unseelie King’s mortal lover.
  • Assorted sidhe-seers
  • Inspector O’Duffy, initial Garda on Alina’s case

Unseelie:

  • Rhino-boys
  • The Gray Man
  • The Gray Woman
  • Royal Hunters
  • Shades
  • The Many-Mouthed Thing
  • Grippers
  • Darroc’s personal guard
  • Royal Houses—the four Unseelie Princes also known as the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Death, Pestilence, Famine and War.
  • Cruce
  • The Unseelie King
  • Assorted Unseelie

Seelie Castes:

  • The Seelie Queen
  • V’lane
  • Laughing Fae
  • Grippers
  • Assorted Seelie Royalty

 

Locations

  • An Old World Bookstore with spatial issues (bigger inside than outside for reasons unexplained.)
  • The Temple Bar District, an area in Dublin that has over six hundred pubs, and is filled with Old World charm,cobbled streets, tourists, partiers and Fae in human glamour
  • The Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College in Dublin
  • Barrons’ garage with a collection of expensive cars and something living beneath it, but no way down.
  • An ancient stone Abbey housing a mysterious sect
  • The Garda Station with Inspector O’Duffy and Inspector Jayne
  • Poste Haste, Inc., a bicycling courier service in Dublin that is really a front for a group of sidhe-seers run by Rowena, who has an international branch of PHI in dozens of countries, and is how she keeps tabs on things happening worldwide.
  • Chester’s underground bar where the Unseelie meet to feed on humans, and humans compete to feed on them for a taste of immortality. Sex is the currency. Run by the mysterious Ryodan whose face is never described.
  • The Dark Zone, an area adjacent to the Barrons Books and Baubles, 20 blocks by 13, filled with Shades—deadly Fae that suck the life from humans.
  • Faery, the many realms of the Fae
  • IFP’s, Inter-dimensional fairy potholes, splinters of alternative realities that have infected the human realm since the walls between Man and Fae came down
  • Ashford, GA, Mac’s small hometown in the Deep South.
  • The Brickyard, the bar Mac bartended at in Ashford, GA.
  • The Silvers, a network of mirrors that connect Fae realms to Mortal.
  • The Hall of All Days, the nexus of the Silvers.
  • The White Mansion, home to the Unseelie king’s concubine
  • Unseelie prison

 

Objects of Power

Seelie Hallows:

  • Cauldron
  • Stone
  • Spear of Destiny
  • Sword of Light


Unseelie Hallows:

  • Silvers (mirrors through which they travel)
  • Amulet
  • Box
  • Book (The Sinsar Dubh)

 

The Stakes

    The Sinsar Dubh contains the power to absolute control over both the worlds of Human and immortal Fae, and it’s loose in the streets of Dublin. First come, first served. Whoever gets it, rules all. Of the players hunting it, MacKayla Lane is the only one that can sense and track it, and everyone is trying to control her. Worse yet, on any given day, any of those she might ally with could be her sister’s murderer. As the series progresses, it becomes clear that the Sinsar Dubh is tracking her, too. But why?
 

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