Publisher's Synopsis
Some know her as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Others as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, her life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Amongst her own kind, she has confronted enemies, endured the treachery and malevolence of her kith and kin, and honoured her duty to conceive a royal heir...all for the right to claim a throne. But Merry has now turned her back on court and crown, choosing instead exile in the human world - and in the arms of her beloved bodyguards.
But while she may have rejected the throne, she cannot abandon her people. Someone is killing the fey. The LAPD are baffled and Merry is worried: her kind are not easily captured or killed. At least not by mortals. She must look into thse murders and that will mean confronting Gilda, her arch rival amongst the fey in Los Angeles.
And yet stranger things are happening. Mortals Merry once healed with magic are suddenly performing miracles themselves, a shocking phenomenon wreaking havoc on relations between man and fey and conjuring up suspicions of forbidden powers.
So much for leaving blood and politics behind her. Merry had dreamed of a quiet life in L.A., but evil knows no borders and it seems nobody lives forever - even if they're magical...
