Merry Gentry

Meredith Gentry is a faerie princess turned private investigator. Merry, the only Sidhe royal to be born on American soil, fearing the continuous assassination attempts on her life thinly disguised as duels, flees the Unseelie Court in a final act of self-preservation. She is hiding from her family and her past in Los Angeles as a private investigator at Grey's Detective Agency. 
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^{The series follows Princess Meredith NicEssus aka "Merry Gentry", a fairy princess that is forced to flee the court of her aunt Andais, the Queen of Air and Darkness and of the Unseelie fae. The first novel takes place after Merry has spent several years outside of her aunt's court out of fear of death via court sanctioned duels. Merry is soon brought back to the Unseelie Court and given the option to take her aunt's throne, but only if she can procreate before her sadistic cousin Cel can. She is allowed to take several of Andais's court guards with her and through the course of the series gains more lovers that are drawn to her side through love, friendship, power, promises for protection, and/or bargains struck with other magical creatures. Merry eventually gets involved in a series of secrets and court intrigues as she discovers that both of the rulers of the Seelie and Unseelie courts are potentially infertile, something that has the potential to keep both the followers in each court from producing new fae children. At the end of Divine Misdemeanors Merry has not only managed to become pregnant with twins, but has formed her own informal court, complete with lands and grounds that she has not fully investigated. She has also alienated herself from both the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, as she was responsible for the death of her cousin Cel of the Unseelie Courts and filed charges against her uncle Taranis, the ruler of the Seelie Courts, for rape.} 
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Merry Gentry Series

1. A Kiss of Shadows (2000)

2. A Caress of Twilight (2002)

3. Seduced by Moonlight (2004)

4. A Stroke of Midnight (2005)

5. Mistral's Kiss (2006)

6. A Lick of Frost (2007)

7. Swallowing Darkness (2008)

8. Divine Misdemeanors (Dec 2009)

9. A Shiver of Light (Jun 2014)