Melissa Marr 
One Blood Ruby 

In this gripping follow-up to Melissa Marrs lush Seven Black Diamonds, Lily and her friends are forced to reckon with the truth of their own lineage and to protect one of their own, no matter whator whocomes between them.Now that Lilywhite Abernathy is the heir to the Hidden Lands, everything is about to change.The Queen of Blood and Rage wants Lily to help broker peace with the human world, but Lily knows that harmony wont come easily. After decades of waging war on the humans, who cost the queen her firstborn daughter, the fae are struggling to accept Lily, a half-human monarch. And the humans, while no match against faery affinities, will hardly agree to the queens dtente without resistance.Lily wants to be a fair ruler but fears having to abandon the life shes known. Now that she and Creed are more than just fellow Black Diamondsoperatives for the queenher priorities have shifted. But her worries about assuming the throne are derailed when it becomes clear that someoneor some faeis masterminding violent attacks to discourage peace.Who can end the war between humans and fae?