Amusing, somewhat kinky power fantasy by the author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. It's almost as if Laurell K Hamilton, having grown tired of the accusations of Mary-Sue-ism directed at the Anita Blake books decided "I'll show them a Mary Sue!" This time the powerful, beautiful, hard-as-nails protagonist is a fairy princess, making her way as a private eye in LA. In the first book, A Kiss of Shadows, Princess Meredith was made co-heir to the Queen of Air and Darkness's throne--if the current heir didn't have her assassinated first. In the current book, she's back in LA, with her harem of gorgeous Unseelie boy-toy bodyguards (to become Queen, she will first have to prove her fertility, you see), just in time to become involved with not one, but two newly awoken ancient evils stalking the land. As usual, it's the character interaction, and the eroticism, that's the driving force, not the mystery per se.