Mistral's Kiss

Its place in Merry Gentry

Mistral's Kiss is book 5 in the Merry Gentry series. It follows A Stroke of Midnight. It is followed by A Lick of Frost. See the full Merry Gentry reading order.

Merry Gentry is Laurell K. Hamilton's second long-running series, following Meredith Gentry -- a faerie princess in hiding as a Los Angeles private investigator -- after decades spent fleeing the fae courts' murderous politics. A Kiss of Shadows opens the series with Merry pulled back into the world she fled: to inherit the Unseelie throne, she must produce an heir before her rival cousin does, in a court where the succession is decided through fertility, seduction, and outright assassination attempts. Hamilton's…