Winter Lost Patricia Briggs Winter Lost is the 14th novel in Patricia Briggs 's Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. Mercy Thompson is the series that introduced me to urban fantasy and is still my all-time favorite urban fantasy series. This one didn't quite feel to me like a typical Mercy Thompson novel. The Mercy Thompson novels are, as a whole, very political -- not that they are about real-world politics, but in the sense that they involve the political machinations and palace intrigues of groups of supernatural creatures, the most important being fae, werewolf packs, and vampire seethes. Mercy, with her werewolf husband Adam Hauptman has, over the course of the the previous 13 novels, become the leader of an alliance of fae, werewolves, and vampires that seeks to ensure security in her local community. These political threads are present in Winter Lost , but really only in the form of unresolved conflicts from previous novels that continue to hang over Mercy