A Kiss of Shadows (Meredith Gentry, Book 1)
Laurell K. Hamilton revitalized vampires, werewolves, and zombies in the  popularAnita Blake: Vampire  Hunterbooks. In this new series, she updates faeries.A Kiss of  Shadowsintroduces Merry Gentry, a.k.a. Meredith NicEssus, a faerie princess of the Unseelie Court, where politics is a blood sport. Merry, who's  part sidhe (elvish), part brownie, and part human, never really fit in. She's  short, not skilled in offensive magic, and mortal because of her human blood.  These are real liabilities when your family, especially aunt Andais, Queen of  Air and Darkness, is out to kill you. Merry has been in hiding for three years,  living in Los Angeles and working for the Grey Detective Agency, which  specializes in "supernatural problems, magical solutions." A new case sets her  against a man who uses forbidden magic to seduce fey women and drain their  power. A plan to trap him goes awry and Merry's cover is blown. Now Andais knows  where she is. But things have changed in Andais's court, and Merry is changing  too.Despite the selkies, brownies, goblins, and ogres in this book, it's not for  children. The fey are "creatures of the senses"--and in the Unseelie court, sex  and pain go together. Merry is sexually adventurous and surrounded by gorgeous,  powerful males, most of whom want her badly. She's politically savvy and no  coward, though she's not the warrior Anita is. Hamilton fans and readers of  adult fairy tales like Anne Bishop'sBlack Jewels trilogywill want to  give Merry a look.--Nona Vero--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.