I was born a faerie princess, but all I ever really wanted was to be safe and loved. I found love with the warriors of the Unseelie court. They are princes now and have given me three babies with magic running through their veins. But none of us are safe as a supernatural power grows in Los Angeles, a death deity that decides that the West Coast isn’t big enough for his ambitions and our lives.
Before my lover Aisling, the rightly chosen ruler can be crowned King of the Seelie court, he is attacked by assassins hidden amongst our supposedly loyal guard. It takes the combined efforts of my royal lovers and the unexpected power of my bloodline to rescue him. Even though we’ve saved Aisling from certain death, he remains unconscious, plagued by a spell that threatens to drain him of his power.
There’s no doubt in my mind that my uncle Taranis, the treacherous Lord of Light and Illusion, is behind this brutal attack. He wants to rip control away from everyone and everything, just as he always has, spreading poison throughout the Seelie court. We are forced to fight a war on two fronts against the death god and my uncle and his allies among the immortals of faerie. But I will not allow my enemies to destroy the family that I’ve built and I will not let them break me.
I am Queen Meredith of the Western Kingdom and of the Slaugh, and I swear that I will achieve the impossible. There will be true peace in faerie once and for all. No matter what it takes….
Author
Laurell K. Hamilton
Laurell K. Hamilton is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and the Merry Gentry series. She has also written A Terrible Fall of Angels, the first book in an exciting series featuring Detective Zaniel Havelock in a world where angels and demons walk among us. With more than forty novels published, Laurell continues to create groundbreaking fiction inspired by her lifelong love of monster movies, ghost stories, mythology, folklore, and things that go bump in the night. Her love of the macabre, books in general, animals, and nature led her to degrees in English and biology. She is a nonpracticing biologist but uses her science background to add an extra level of realism to her fiction. She currently lives in St. Louis with her family, two spoiled Japanese chins, a house panther, and a house lion. In her free time, Laurell trains in Filipino martial arts with a specialization in bladework, and travels to scuba dive and bird-watch as often as she can.
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