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  • Published: 11 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781837321162
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $36.00

Swallowing Darkness

Urban Fantasy (Merry Gentry 7)




Edgy, erotic and dangerously exciting - the seventh pulse-racing novel in Laurell K Hamilton's bestselling sequence featuring private investigator and faerie princess Merry Gentry - the original spicy dark romantasy series!

Pregnant with the heirs to the Unseelie throne, Meredith Gentry must confront the treachery of kings, courts and ancient magic to protect her children or die trying in this pulse-racing, page-turning novel . . .

Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie and wielder of the Hands of Flesh and Blood, is finally with child – twins fathered by her royal guard – bringing her closer to claiming her aunt’s throne. and ruling the Unseelie Court.

But her uncle Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, who abducted and assaulted her, has falsely claimed to be the father of her unborn children and accused her guards of being a danger to the heirs she carries.

From every court in faerie, enemies seek to strip away Meredith's lovers and protectors through treachery or violence. But she finds unexpected allies among the goblins and the sluagh, the nightmares of faerie. Merry must fight to survive, to see her children born and secure her crown.

To protect what is hers, she is prepared to sacrifice anything and everything – even if it means making the most fateful choice of all . . .

  • Published: 11 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781837321162
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $36.00

About the author

Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and the Merry Gentry series. She has also written A Terrible Fall of Angels, the first book in an exciting series featuring Detective Zaniel Havelock in a world where angels and demons walk among us.
 
With more than forty novels published, Laurell continues to create groundbreaking fiction inspired by her lifelong love of monster movies, ghost stories, mythology, folklore, and things that go bump in the night. Her love of the macabre, books in general, animals, and nature led her to degrees in English and biology. She is a nonpracticing biologist but uses her science background to add an extra level of realism to her fiction.
 
She currently lives in St. Louis with her family, two spoiled Japanese chins, a house panther, and a house lion. In her free time, Laurell trains in Filipino martial arts with a specialization in bladework, and travels to scuba dive and bird-watch as often as she can.

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