Synopses & Reviews
From the darkling throng to the glittering court, this is a world of magic and delights, greed and grotesque ambitions. Laurell K. Hamilton has created a mythos of extreme power and pure beauty that is a delight to behold.
Princess Meredith will inherit the throne -- if she can stay alive long enough to claim it. Her cousin, Prince Cel, is determined to see that she doesn't. As long as they both live, they will be in a race for the crown. Whichever of them reproduces first... gets the throne. The men of Meredith's royal guard -- warriors skilled with blade, spell, and gun -- protect her from assassination attempts, and hope to become her lover, auditioning with pleasure for the role of future king and father of her child.
All the royal back-stabbing makes it very difficult for Meredith to pursue her living as a private investigator in Los Angeles -- especially since the media makes sure the whole world knows the Faerie princess is alive and well in sunny California.
The people of Los Angeles are dying in mysterious, frightening ways. What the human police don't realize is that the killer is hunting the fey as well. Havoc lies on the horizon: the very existence of the place known as Faerie is at grave risk. Meredith enjoys the pleasures of her life with her guardians even as she fends off an ancient evil that could destroy the very fabric of reality.
And that's just her day job.
Review
"Private dick/Faerie princess Meredith Gentry returns in this faux-noir sequel to A Kiss of Shadows....Meredith ends as the Princess of Flesh and Blood, not yet with child, still babbling that overripe moonspeak ('I smelled roses, and blood appeared on my wrist as if by the prick of thorns')." Kirkus Reviews
Review
"This genre blending seems to work; Hamilton has already achieved New York Times bestsellerdom." Library Journal
Synopsis
I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne if I can stay alive long enough to claim it.
After eluding relentless assassination attempts by Prince Cel, her cousin and rival for the Faerie crown, Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private eye, has a whole new set of problems. To become queen, she must bear a child before Cel can father one of his own. But havoc lies on the horizon: people are dying in mysterious, frightening ways, and suddenly the very existence of the place known as Faerie is at grave risk. So now, while she enjoys the greatest pleasures of her life attempting to conceive a baby with the warriors of her royal guard, she must fend off an ancient evil that could destroy the very fabric of reality. And that?s just her day job....
About the Author
Laurell K. Hamilton is the
New York Times bestselling author of the first novel starring Meredith Gentry,
A Kiss of Shadows, and nine acclaimed Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
Visit her official Web site at www.laurellkhamilton.com.