Merry Gentry · Book 7

Swallowing Darkness

by Laurell K. Hamilton

Published
1 January 2008
Pages
365
ISBN-13
9780345495938
Type
novel

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About this book

Swallowing Darkness (2008) pushes the fae court succession plot toward its climax, with Meredith Gentry's power and her circle of guards-and-lovers both still building across Laurell K. Hamilton's series.

Its place in Merry Gentry

Swallowing Darkness is book 7 in the Merry Gentry series. It follows A Lick of Frost. It is followed by Divine Misdemeanors. 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…

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