Mistral's Kiss

Zusatztext Praise for Laurell K. Hamilton A Kiss of Shadows “I’ve never read a writer with a more fertile imagination.” –Diana Gabaldon A Caress of Twilight “Sensual, without a doubt . . . This book moves like a whirlwind.” –St. Louis Post-Dispatch Seduced by Moonlight “This [faerie] society is one of the most detailed, imaginative and lovingly drawn in all fantastic fiction, and the Meredith Gentry series has become something special.” –San Jose Mercury News A Stroke of Midnight “Nonstop action . . . This book will leave you breathless.” –St. Louis Post-Dispatch Informationen zum Autor Laurell K. Hamilton is the New York Times bestselling author of the Meredith Gentry novels: A Kiss of Shadows, A Caress of Twilight, Seduced by Moonlight, A Stroke of Midnight, as well as twelve acclaimed Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novels. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Visit the author’s website at www.laurellkhamilton.org. Klappentext I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne of faerie. My day job, once upon a time, was as a private detective in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, princess has now become a full-time occupation. My aunt, Queen Andais, will have it no other way. And so I am virtually a prisoner in faerie-trapped here with some of the realm's most beautiful men to serve as my bodyguards . . . and my lovers. For I am compelled to conceive a child: an heir to succeed me on the throne. Yet after months of amazing sex with my consorts, there is still no baby. And no baby means no throne. The only certainty is death at the hands of my cousin Cel, or his followers, if I fail to conceive. Now Mistral, Queen Andais's new captain of the guard, has come to my bed-defying her and risking her terrible wrath in doing so. But even she will hesitate to punish him in jealous rage, because our joining has reawakened old magic, mystical power so ancient that no one stands against it and survives. Not even my strongest and most favored: my Darkness and my Killing Frost. Not even Mistral himself, my Storm Lord. But because Mistral has helped to bring this magic forth, he may live another day. If I can reclaim control of the fey power that once was, there may be hope for me and my reign in faerie. I might yet quell the dark schemes and subterfuges surrounding me. Though shadows of obsession and conspiracy gather, I may survive. Leseprobe Chapter 1 I dreamt of warm flesh and cookies. The sex I understood, but the cookies . . . Why cookies? Why not cake, or meat? But that’s what my subconscious chose as I dreamt. We were eating in the tiny kitchen of my Los Angeles apartment—an apartment I didn’t live in anymore, outside of dreams. The we were me, Princess Meredith—the only faerie royal ever born on American soil—and my royal guards, over a dozen of them. They moved me around with skin the color of darkest night, whitest snow, the pale of newborn leaves, the brown of leaves that have gone down to die on the forest floor, a rainbow of men moving nude around the kitchen. The real apartment kitchen would have barely held three of us, but in the dream everyone walked through that narrow space between sink and stove and cabinets as if there were all the room in the world. We were having cookies because we’d just had sex and it was hungry work, or something like that. The men moved around me graceful and perfectly nude. Several of the men were ones I’d never seen nude. They moved with skin the color of summer sunshine, the transparent white of crystals, colors I had no name for, for the colors did not exist outside of faerie. It should have been a good dream, but it wasn’t. I knew something was wrong, that feeling of unease that you get in dreams when you know that the happy sights are just a disguise, an illusion to hide the ugliness to come. The plate of cookies was so innocent, ...

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Praise for Laurell K. Hamilton

A Kiss of Shadows

I ve never read a writer with a more fertile imagination.
Diana Gabaldon

A Caress of Twilight

Sensual, without a doubt . . . This book moves like a whirlwind.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Seduced by Moonlight

This [faerie] society is one of the most detailed, imaginative and lovingly drawn in all fantastic fiction, and the Meredith Gentry series has become something special.
San Jose Mercury News

A Stroke of Midnight

Nonstop action . . . This book will leave you breathless.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Product details

• Authors: Laurell K Hamilton, Laurell K. Hamilton
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.10.2007
• EAN: 9780345443618
• ISBN: 978-0-345-44361-8
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 175 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Meredith Gentry; Meredith (Merry) Gentry; Merry Gentry; Meredith Gentry Novels; Meredith (Merry) Gentry; Merry Gentry; Ballantine Group
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy