Blurb: I am Meredith Gentry, princess and heir apparent to the throne in the realm of faerie, onetime private investigator in the mortal world. To be crowned queen, I must first continue the royal bloodline and give birth to an heir of my own.
If I fail, my aunt, Queen Andais, will be free to do what she most desires: install her twisted son, Cel, as monarch . . . and kill me.
My royal guards surround me, and my best loved–my Darkness and my Killing Frost–are always beside me, sworn to protect and make love to me. But still the threat grows greater. For despite all my carnal efforts, I remain childless, while the machinations of my sinister, sadistic Queen and her confederates remain tireless. So my bodyguards and I have slipped back into Los Angeles, hoping to outrun the gathering shadows of court intrigue. But even exile isn’t enough to escape the grasp of those with dark designs.
Now King Taranis, powerful and vainglorious ruler of faerie’s Seelie Court, has leveled accusations against my noble guards of a heinous crime–and has gone so far as to ask the mortal authorities to prosecute. If he succeeds, my men face extradition to faerie and the hideous penalties that await them there. But I know that Taranis’s charges are baseless, and I sense that his true target is me. He tried to kill me when I was a child. Now I fear his intentions are far more terrifying.
Wow, what an amazing read. I really held off reading this one for fear it would be another sex saturated storyline. Between this one and the latest Anita Blake I'm starting to wonder if Hamilton's been reading some of the comments us readers have been putting out there and taking them to heart. The plot is solid and it moves the series forward in a great leap, and there's only a couple of sex scenes, which are down right tame compared to the previous books in the series. I can hardly wait to see what curve balls Hamilton tosses at Merry in SWALLOWING DARKNESS. November isn't that far off, right? Merry's finally starting to understand how her feelings for her guards affect them and their efforts to be her King. And for once Andais and Cel aren't her main threat. Taranis and his madness is frightening in this one and the wild magic is working it's way up to some unknown climax. I loved the scene between Merry, Rhys, and Kitto, I found it sweet.
--Missy
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