From publicity material: Merry's aunt, the dark Queen Andais, has commanded her niece, who is half-mortal, half-faerie princess to attempt to conceive a child, an heir to succeed her on the throne. Children are rarein the faerie world, and Merry's task is fraught with peril. One by one, consorts have come to her bed to hlep her save her claim to the throne--and her life.

Now Merry and her lovers have left the faerie world to return to Los Angeles. But as they race to conceive a child--a quest that has proven disturbingly elusive--they find themselves caught in a deadly political game, wrongfully accused of an unspeakable crime. And when the line dividing the golden Seelie court from the darker Unseelie court wavers, Merry finds herself pitted against an enemy who wants an heir even more desperately than Andais--and who will go to any lengths to get one.

(Source: Ballantine)