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go to sleep pressed between the warmth of their bodies. I wake in the night to the sound of their breathing. I got to watch their faces at the doctor’s office, all of their faces, as we heard the heartbeats of our babies, so fast, like frightened birds. I saw their faces as we watched those shadows on the screen move and flex, and found out that one of them was very much a boy. They are debating names now, and I’m enjoying how happy they all are, we all are.

The question that no interviewer has asked was this: If you had let Frost die, and taken the throne, how would you have felt? We had missed our Killing Frost, and found that no throne, no crown, no power, no gift of Goddess made up for the loss of him. We’d already felt the sorrow of that loss, and neither Doyle nor I had ever been king or queen. You cannot miss what you never had, but you can miss forever the man you loved and lost.

I don’t want to miss anyone else, ever again.

I am Princess Meredith NicEssus and I finally have my happy-ever-after ending in the City of Angels on the Shores of the Western Sea. Sometimes Fairyland is where you make it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LAURELL K. HAMILTON is the New York Times bestselling author of the Meredith Gentry novels: A Kiss of Shadows, A Caress of Twilight, Seduced by Moonlight, A Stroke of Midnight, Mistral’s Kiss, and A Lick of Frost, as well as sixteen acclaimed Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Visit her website at www.laurellkhamilton.org.

ALSO BY LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Published by The Random House Publishing Group

A LICK OF FROST

MISTRAL’S KISS

A STROKE OF MIDNIGHT

SEDUCED BY MOONLIGHT

A CARESS OF TWILIGHT

A KISS OF SHADOWS

Swallowing Darkness is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by Laurell K. Hamilton

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hamilton, Laurell K.

Swallowing darkness: a novel / Laurell K. Hamilton.—1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Gentry, Meredith (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women private investigators—Fiction. I. Title

PS3558.A443357S93 2005

813'.54—dc22

2008037441

www.ballantinebooks.com

eISBN: 978-0-345-50987-1

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