Summer Knight
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is in a serious financial and personal slump. His life takes a turn when the Winter Queen of Faerie offers him a deal: solve the murder of the Summer Knight and clear her name. If he succeeds, he might just break free from a supernatural hold and end his streak of bad luck, but he'll also find himself entangled in faerie politics with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
The Summer Lady who orchestrated Ronald Reuel's murder and the theft of his power to shift the balance between the Faerie Courts toward Winter.
The ruthless Winter Queen of Faerie who forces Harry into a deadly trial to clear her name of the Summer Knight's murder.
The murdered Summer Knight whose death and stolen power set the novel's central mystery in motion.
Harry's former lover and a fellow wizard, now bound to the Summer Court, who helps him investigate and escape Aurora.
While each entry in the series functions as a self-contained mystery, this book builds significantly upon the emotional and narrative consequences of the preceding novels, particularly regarding the protagonist's personal life and past alliances.
The series is designed to be read in publication order to properly track the development of the protagonist's relationships and the overarching supernatural conflicts that evolve across the books.
