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'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 an unfortunate few, that day-to-day existence is affected'perhaps infected is a better word'by memetic incursion: where narratives the rest of the world considers fairy tales becomes reality, often with disastrous results. That's where the ATI Management Bureau steps in. A motley team struggling with their own unfolding narratives, they are tasked with identifying potential outbreaks using Aarne-Thompson Indexing and making sure the story doesn't reach 'ever after''¦because if it does, usually someone is insane, dead'or worse. Because with the ATI, it goes without saying that neither a Cinderalla, a Snow White, nor any other character-type on the Index is going to have a happy ending for anyone involved. Indexing is bestselling author Seanan McGuire's new urban fantasy where everything you thought you knew about fairy tales gets turned on its head.
