User:AVoraciousReader/Maeve

Cold Days
In Cold Days, Harry met Lily at the Botanical Gardens where she told Harry about a contagion, a parasite, that causes people or beings to do horrible things against their nature such as Harry's first three major cases. Maeve showed up and accused Mab of of being contaminated by the contagion and has gone "utterly mad" and plans to "unleash chaos on the world" that night—Halloween. Maeve and Lily say they think Mab's plan's had something to do with Demonreach. She said that Mab infected Lea during that time she had her bound in ice at Arctis Tor. Maeve and Lily ask Harry to kill Mab, that as the Winter Knight, he can do it because his power comes from Mab.

Harry and team try to determine who is behind the spell required to release the monsters, and if its Outsiders, who let them into this world. Though the Ladies can't lie, they could be wrong. Lily is not that smart and Maeve is crazy.

It is eventually discovered by Harry—and revealed and he convinces Fix to join forces—that Maeve is contaminated, which specifically has allowed her to lie despite her Fae nature. Maeve is manipulating Lily into believing she can detect Nemesis and that Demonreach is a source of evil rather than a prison of it. Using Lily to release the creatures, destroying most of the Midwest as a side effect, Maeve is confronted by Harry halfway through the ritual.

Harry and his friends—Karrin Murphy, Thomas Raith, Mouse, Sarissa, McAnally and Justine, plus Molly Carpenter hidden under a veils—are rendered helpless by Maeve and her minions including Redcap, Rawhead and some Sidhe. Maeve shot Mac in the stomach. Harry finally figured out that Maeve and Sarissa are twin sisters. When things got desperate, Harry summoned Mab to deal with Maeve using the Circle of Power already called up by Maeve and Lily.

Maeve confronts Mab on her wish to kill her and her training of Sarissa to replace her. In spite, Maeve suddenly shoots Lily in the head, transferring her mantle to Sarissa. With no trustworthy host for her mantle nearby, Maeve believes Mab cannot risk killing her. Unbeknownst to her, Molly Carpenter has also been trained as a potential successor and is hiding nearby. Despite Harry's pleas and best efforts, Karrin Murphy—Mab released her bonds with a finger twitch—kills Maeve with a hidden pistol.