A kiss of shadows - Laurell K. Hamilton (Urban fantasy)

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Meet Merry Gentry, a paranormal P.I., and enter a thrilling, sensual world as dangerous as it is beautiful, full of earthly pleasures and dazzling magic, and ruled by the all-consuming passions of immortal beings once worshipped as gods . . . or demons.

Merry Gentry, princess of the high court of Faerie, is posing as a human in Los Angeles, working as a private investigator specializing in supernatural crime.

But now the queen’s assassin has been dispatched to her back – whether she likes it or not. Suddenly Merry finds herself a pawn in her dreaded aunt’s plans.

The task that awaits her: enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful immortal men in the world. The reward: the crown – and the opportunity to continue to live. The penalty for failure: death.