Meredith Gentry, the escaped princess of the dark fairies, has become in our world a private detective investigating paranormal and magical crimes. But now there is no peace either in the fairy kingdom, whose envoys found Meredith, or in the human world, which has experienced the terrible power of inhuman witchcraft .In the fairy world there is a ruthless fight for the throne - and cousin Meredith, second in the line of succession, uses sword and magic to become the first - and only... In our world, a mysterious killer destroys more and more people - and the police are powerless to capture the elusive maniac. And only Meredith understands that the crimes committed in the human world are directly related to the battle for power in the fairy world... She will have to fight and win - or die...