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Princess Meredith NicEssus, wielder of the hands of flesh and blood, also niece to Queen of Air and Darkness of the Unseelie Throne. The Seelie power in her has changed the sithen in a way that the Queen doesn’t like at all. After the Queen lost her captain of the guard, her Darkness, and her second in command, her Killing Frost, she put Mistral, Bringer of Storms in charge of the Royal Ravens. When Merry’s ring reacted to Mistral, as they say, “the heat was on.” Of course, the Queen wasn’t happy at all. Darkness and Frost are Merry’s guards now and if Merry was to be exiled from faerie, they would go with her without any doubts. Their only problem with letting everything go and leaving all behind was that they couldn’t leave prince Cel in charge of faerie because there wouldn’t be a faerie after that sadistic sidhe was on the throne. So with the world of faerie in their hands, Merry is doing her best to get pregnant and be on the throne before Cel.

Once after there were assassination attempts on Merry’s green knight, Galen, things were beginning to come into perspective. A prophecy concerning a vegetative deity and Merry was going to bring life back to the Unseelie Court. There are many in the courts who don’t wish Merry on the throne and figured that if her guards were attacked then she would be weakened. Also Queen Andais has been having members of her court make major mistakes against the throne. Once Andais learns who is the traitors, things don’t go well for them.

For a first time life has returned to the sithen. It is raining in the sithen because of Merry laying with Mistral. They had to make the best of this since the Queen said that Merry couldn’t keep him. He was hers only for tonight.

Things get really steamy with Abe, Sholto, Mistral and Merry. I can only say that the wild magic is in the air and changing many things.

You have got to read this one. I have found it to be the most exciting book out of this series. Its sensual, breathtaking, and at moments sad. The high emotions running through all those in faerie, sidhe and non fey alike.