One Blood Ruby
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In this gripping follow-up to Melissa Marrâs 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 whatâor whoâcomes 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 wonât 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 queenâs dÊtente without resistance.
Lily wants to be a fair ruler but fears having to abandon the life sheâs known. Now that she and Creed are more than just fellow Black Diamondsâoperatives for the queenâher priorities have shifted. But her worries about assuming the throne are derailed when it becomes clear that someoneâor some faeâis masterminding violent attacks to discourage peace. Who can end the war between humans and fae?
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Melissa Marr writes fiction for adults, teens, and children. Her books have been translated into twenty-eight languages and been bestsellers in the US (NY Times, LA Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal) as well as overseas. Wicked Lovely, her debut novel, was an instant New York Times bestseller and evolved into an internationally bestselling multibook series. Over the last two decades, she's also published middle grade (The Hidden Knife), adult fiction (Graveminder), picture books (Bunny Roo, I Love You), and comics (The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley). If she's not writing, you can probably find her in a kayak or on a trail with her wife.
