/Laurell K. Hamiltonshelf | Mistral’s Kiss

Princess Meredith is heir to a throne of faerie. Her day job, once upon a time, was as a private detective in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, princess has now become a full-time occupation.

Her aunt, Queen Andais, will have it no other way. And so she is virtually a prisoner in faerie–trapped there with some of the realm’s most beautiful men to serve as here bodyguards…and her lovers. For she is compelled to conceive a child: an heir to succeed her on the throne. Yet after months of amazing sex with her consorts, there is still no baby. And no baby means no throne. The only certainty is death at the hands of her cousin Cel, or his followers, if she fails to conceive.

Now Mistral, Queen Andais’s new captain of the guard, has come to her bed-–defying the Queen and risking her terrible wrath in doing so. But even she will hesitate to punish him in jealous rage, because his joining with Merry has reawakened old magic, mystical power so ancient that no one stands against it and survives. Not even her strongest and most favored: Darkness and Killing Frost. Not even Mistral himself, the Storm Lord. But because Mistral has helped to bring this magic forth, he may live another day.

If she can reclaim control of the fey power that once was, there may be hope for me and my reign in faerie. She might yet quell the dark schemes and subterfuges surrounding me. Though shadows of obsession and conspiracy gather, she may survive.