I believe this genre is called Urban Fantasy. This reminded me strongly of Butcher's Dresden books. Our heroine, October Daye, is a changeling - at least in the lexicon of this book. There is a long list of definitions of categories of the fae at the beginning. According to this version, a changeling is a half-breed, the product of the mating of a human with a creature of faerie. According to Google, a changeling is a fae infant swapped for a human child - or the human child which is stolen. Oh well, I suppose anyone is entitled to create their own version.
The setting is San Francisco, with any number of openings into faerie land. A rather unpleasant faerie land, but then the faerie lands of Urban Fantasy tend to be rather unpleasant places. Toby takes even more of a beating than Dresden does in the course of one of his adventures.
I'll give her another try, this was definitely not as well-crafted as Dresden, but has potential.
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