A Lick of Frost

✍ Scribed by Laurell K. Hamilton

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group; Bantam
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 172 KB
• Series: Merry Gentry 6
• Category: Fiction
• City: London
• ISBN: 034550223X

✦ Synopsis

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...

✦ Subjects

Fairies -- Fiction