Anita Blake

From the inside cover of the US hardback:
My name is Meredith Gentry, but of course it's not my real name. I dare not even whisper my true name after dark for fear that one hushed word will travel over the night winds to the soft ear of my aunt, the Queen of the Air and Darkness. She wants me dead. I don't even know why.
I fled the high court of Faerie three years ago, and have been hiding ever since. I ran as far as the land would take me, stopped only door the kust-, oever of the Pacific Ocean and the fact that if I'd used my passport the Bureau of Human and Fey Affairs would have been notified, and...

A bit of info on Laurell K Hamilton's fifth book in the Merry Gentry series, 'Mistral's Kiss.'



Synopsis

Picking up where the vorige novel, A Stroke of Midnight, left off, Meredith and company are still holed up in the underground fairy mound of the Unseelie Court, with the princess still trying to get pregnant. Mistral, one of the queen's guards, is on temporary loan to Meredith after the recent attempt on her life. The powers that they stir up affect some serious changes in the land of faerie, none of which make Queen Andais happy. Sholto, King of the Sluagh, comes to terms with Merry and...