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MacKayla "Mac" Lane is a fictional character from Karen Marie Moning's Fever Series, who has done far more in a year while in Dublin, Ireland than many 20-something's accomplish in their 20's and 30's. Mac's life was nice and easy when she and her family lived in Georgia. She grew up with a sister as a best friend, Alina, and after graduating high school, Alina begged their parents to let her go to Dublin, Ireland for college. Little did either sister know that the world that they knew would complete change by Alina going to Dublin. Drawn into a world within our world, Mac finds herself in multiple life-or-death situations, and end of the world scenarios.

About the Series
When Karen Marie Moning first started writing the Fever series, she intended for it to be a 5 book series, which has expanded to far more than that now. The series is now eleven books, plus a graphic novel.

One thing that Karen Marie Moning does well in the books is she gives the readers a guide in the back of every book, and with each book, the guides get more detailed. For the most part, each guide is written from Mac's point of view, and some even have edits to them so that the reader can get a better vision of what Mac once believed to be true, compared to what is the reality of her world. She also adds edits to the guides as people change and die throughout the series. As the guide grows through the series, Moning gives it categories, primarily "Places," "People," and "Things."

However, the series is initially about Mac, who's story started with the death of her sister. Throughout the series, Mac has to deal with many different aspects of her world being turned completely upside-down. In the beginning, Mac was a pink-loving, bartender who took the occasional college course to keep her parents happy, but by the end of the initial series, she is completely different. "Glam girl turned sleek warrior woman."

Mac's Story
After reaching Dublin, Mac quickly gets swept into the Irish Fae reality that she did not know was there. The first thing that she learns is that the Sinsar Dubh is not what she thought it was. In a voicemail left by Alina, Mac makes it her goal to try and track down this book that turns out to much more than a book due to the work of the Unseelie King, one of the Tuatha Dé Danann, or Fae. She learns that she has abilities that most of the population does not have, and that she is otherwise known as a sidhe-seer. Because of that, and the reality of the Seelie, or the Light Court, and the Unseelie, or the Dark Court, Mac must learn to adjust her view of the world quickly before she dies. She meets Rowena in the beginning who is in charge of the Post Haste, Inc., which is a world-wide organization of women and girls who are also sidhe-seer's, though their abilities range from empathy, to super speed/senses; everything from emotional and mental to physical abilities. Some girls do not get abilities, but what makes them different is that they can see through the Fae glamour -what the Fae projects to the world instead of what it actually looks like. Rowena turns Mac away quickly, thinking that she has gone “pri-ya,” which is a human who is a Fae-sex addict. Soon after that meeting, she meets Jericho Barrons, who at first is simply the owner of Barrons Books and Baubles, a quaint but large bookstore just off the Temple Bar District in the heart of Dublin. Throughout the series, Barrons goes from being a stranger, to being Mac's mentor in this new world, and at some points a rather frustrating love-interest.

Throughout the series, Mac also learns that she and her sister were adapted from a woman named Isla O'Conner. During the adoption, Rainy and Jack Lane were told specifically to not let either of the sisters into Ireland, let alone Dublin. For a long time, Jack and Rainy blamed themselves for the death of Alina, and did not want Mac to go to Ireland. However, in all of her stubborn attitude, Mac went to Ireland in an attempt to keep the Irish police on her sisters murder case. At the beginning, when Mac first gets to Dublin, Alina's case is considered a cold case, and the police are not too inclined to keep a man on it because there is not much evidence to go on when it comes finding the killer, despite her body being beyond mangled.

By the end of the initial series, Mac learns who the real murder of her sister was, the entire world has fallen into ruin, with Dublin specifically having a post-apocalyptic vibe going as everything falls apart, and the fate of humanity falls on Mac, and her friends, shoulders. One of the big things that Mac must adjust to is that she needs to be her own hero. Growing up in the Deep South as she did, Mac always thought that her life would end up like everyone else in her town; marry, have kids, and settle down. However, after moving to Dublin, she quickly learns that the fairy-tale image that she was brought up on is not going to be what keeps her alive. Mac learns to fight, changes her hair from sleek, long, and blonde, to short, sometimes messy or spiky, and dark. She has help in learning how to fight from Jericho Barrons, as well as learning how to navigate the high society world that Barrons lives in during the first few books of the series. Barrons helps Mac in obtaining one of the two items that can kill the Fae; the Sword of Lugh, and the Spear. Barrons and Mac locate and get the Spear of Destiny.

The Spear of Destiny and the Sword of Lugh
Though a lot of the world that Mac lives in is fictional, or within Fae lore, The Spear of Destiny (Ravenscroft) is from a different aspect of the world that we live in. Barrons tells Mac when they are obtaining the Spear that it is the Spear that stabbed Jesus Christ, and Mac has a moment about holding a Holy Object. Barrons tells her that she must keep it on her at all times of the day. However, in her trials in Dublin, Mac meets on the Seelie Court, V'lane, who has the ability to make the Spear disappear and reappear from Mac's side. Among other things, V'lane is a Seelie Prince, and has more powers than any of the Unseelie that Mac encounters in the beginning of the Fever Series.

Though the readers are not given as much information on the sword during the story, there is a little about it in the back of the book in the Guides. In the beginning the story, Rowena has control over the Sword, and decides who gets it, often going to a specific sidhe-seer named Dani who has super speed and senses. Based on Lugh, Moning keeps the Fae lore within Ireland, using the sword as one of the few weapons to kill any of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and keeping it as both the Sword of Light, and the Sword of Lugh, she brings things to a circle within the Irish Lore.

Jericho Barrons, the Nine
Halfway through the initial series, Mac actually becomes pri-ya, and is the only human known to come back from it because of Jericho Barrons. “You’re leaving me Rainbow Girl.” Jericho Barrons, Ryoden, and Lor are part of a group of an unnamed group of nine men who are extremely unique, both physically and mentally, and refuse to acknowledge that they are living on Earth, and are therefore somewhat responsible for its inhabitants. They are not fully human and Mac learns that these men cannot be permanently killed, though no one is allowed to know what exactly they are. Though it is unclear who the leader of the group is, Barrons and Ryoden seem to be the two heads of the group that the rest listen to. Mac does not get to meet the rest of the men until much farther into the series, if she does.