He's been warned that his new status will attract the attention of greater powers. According to Maeve and the Erlking, he is a 'starborn', a term probably related to his unusual ability to affect Outsiders with magic.

He has bested two high-ranking Outsiders and lived, led the Wild Hunt, bested the Summer Knight in single combat, and been granted personal favors by Archangel Uriel. Harry Dresden is no longer leading an ordinary mortal existence, having within the space of a year returned from the dead, been made Winter Knight (on a level with the Sidhe nobles), and Warden of Demonreach. How messed up is that?īeset by his new enemies and hounded by the old, Dresden has only twenty four hours to reconnect with his old allies, prevent a cataclysm and do the impossible - all while the power he bargained to get - but never meant to keep - lays siege to his very soul. Even as he grapples with the impossible task, Dresden learns of a looming danger to Demonreach, the living island hidden upon Lake Michigan, a place whose true purpose and dark potential have the potential to destroy billions and to land Dresden in the deepest trouble he has ever known - even deeper than being dead.

Mab, the mother of wicked faeries, has restored the mostly-dead wizard to health, and dispatches him upon his first mission - to bring death to an immortal. You can't keep a good wizard down - even when he wants to stay that way.įor years, Harry Dresden has been Chicago's only professional wizard, but a bargain made in desperation with the Queen of Air and Darkness has forced him into a new job: professional killer.

Cold Days by Jim Butcher