Small Favour (The Dresden Files, Book 10)

Old doubts emerge, as do twisted promises and a friend as dangerous as any foe. Harry needs to get creative with the weaponry, as nothing ever goes smoothly for Chicago's only professional wizard…

Harry Dresden's life finally seems to be calming down. The White Council's war with the vampiric Red Court has entered a period of détente, no one's tried to kill him in nearly a year, and the worst problem he's had lately is working out how to remove the stains his apprentice bungled into his carpeting. The future looks fairly promising. Unfortunately the past isn't nearly so bright.

An old bargain placed Harry in debt to Mab, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe and the Queen of Air and Darkness. Harry still owes the Winter Queen of Faerie two favours, and it's now time to pay one of them off. It's a small favour that he really can't refuse, but it will trap Harry between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally, stretching his skills and loyalties to their very limits.

It figures. Everything was going too well to last.

A martial arts enthusiast whose résumé includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least two hundred years ago, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane. He lives mostly inside his own head so that he can write down the conversation of his imaginary friends, but his head can generally be found in Independence, Missouri. Jim is the author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera novels, and the Cinder Spires series, which began with The Aeronaut’s Windlass.