This book starts out at a hospital. Meredith was taken there after being rescued from her uncle, who beat and raped her. She was able to escape by convincing her uncle that she was in fact pregnant with his child and needed human medical attention. It was a tense moment being taken through the Seelie Court. Many nobles believed that the King had saved her from her guards and that she was pregnant with his kids. With all the magic that flows through all the courts of faerie, its amazing that anyone has any close friends.
At the hospital, Meredith's grandma comes to visit her. This woman pretty much helped raise her, as Merry's own mother never really cared for Meredith. However, Grandma is being rather mean to Merry about everything, including her choice in the men she got pregnant by, including the King of the Sluagh. After many hurtful words everyone realizes that Grandma has been put under a spell to kill Merry's guards. As she was trying to hurt Merry, her guards were forced to kill her, which in turn really hurt Merry. It turns out that Merry's other cousin, Cair, was the culprit and had put a spell on their grandma to try to kill Merry, or at least convince her that her guards were evil. Merry declares her a kin slayer, calls the wild hunt (which hunts and punishes those who break laws, something that disappeared from faerie long ago) and kills her cousin.
She has now shown that she is a force to be reckoned with. After rescuing Doyle from the hospital who was hurt by grandma before she is killed and Mistral who was lead out into the open by assassins, the three of them hide out with the sluagh and King Sholto to recover. It works, they are forced into a deep sleep by the goddess who heals them all. During that time, Sholto and Merry are hand-fasted by faerie itself, meaning they are married. Merry becomes the Queen of the Sluagh.
However, while they are asleep the Seelie make camp outside the sluagh sithen, thinking that the sluagh have kidnapped Merry and are there to see her released to them. Of course that is not the case, Merry refuses and calls in the human police to come and get her and her men. No one would risk fighting with the human police, for all fey people would be exiled from America and have no where to go.
On the way to the airport, the Unseelie are blocking the road, with the same request as the Seelie. They want her released to them. Again Merry and her men refuse. However, Cousin Cel is leading this pack and starts a battle with the human police who are backed by the National Guard. Merry decides now is the time to kill Cel, or this will never end.
During this battle Merry kills Cel, his main guards and nearly her aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness. In a vision she crowned queen of the Unseelie Court by the God and Goddess, and Doyle is crowned King. They both turn down the crown to get Frost back, which the gods accept.
By the end of the book, evil Cousin Cel is dead, the Queen is still Queen, but probably not for long and Merry has all her men back in Los Angeles, where they feel safer away from all the enemies of faerie.
Although there is one more book in the story, this one answered all the questions I had when I started the series. Merry gets pregnant first, would have gotten the crown and gets to keep all her favorite guards. I enjoyed the series, but it is exhausting reading about the constant attempts to kill Meredith and her guards. I could never live a life so emotionally stressful. I am not sure I will ever read the last book. This one wrapped up nicely for me.
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