A Kiss of Shadows

"My name is Meredith Gentry, but of course it's not my real name. I dare not even whisper my true name after dark for fear that one hushed word will travel over the night winds to the soft ear of my aunt, the Queen of the Air and Darkness. She wants me dead. I don't even know why." Meredith Gentry, Princess of the high court of Faerie, is posing as a human in Los Angeles, living as a P.I. specializing in supernatural crime. But now the Queen's assassin has been dispatched to fetch her backwhether she likes it or not. Suddenly Meredith finds herself a pawn in her dreaded aunt's plans. The job that awaits her: enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful immortal men in the world. The reward: the crownand the opportunity to continue to live. The penalty for failure: death.

<b>Laurell K. Hamilton</b> is the bestselling author of nine acclaimed Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels. She lives in Kirkwood, Missouri, with her daughter, two attack pugs, three birds, and a partridge in a pear tree. Visit her official Web site at www.laurellkhamilton.com.<br><br>