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, who has experienced the terrible power of inhuman witchcraft.

The merciless fight for the throne continues.

Meredith’s cousin and enemy, second in the line of succession, is defeated and imprisoned - but his hired killers still following on her heels...

The discord in the ruling family is skillfully taken advantage of by court intriguers who dream of placing their own pretender on the throne...

Now Meredith is in danger from two sides at once.

She has more and more enemies and fewer and fewer allies.

And the only one in whose sincerity she can still trust is the Storm Lord Mistral, a warrior possessing an ancient, mysterious power... .