One Blood Ruby (Seven Black Diamonds, #2)

The Queen of Blood and Rage wants Lily to help broker peace with the human world, but Lily knows that harmony won't 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 queen's détente without resistance. Lily wants to be a fair ruler but fears having to abandon the life she's known to do so. Now that she and Creed are more than just fellow Black Diamonds -- operatives for the queen -- her priorities have shifted. But her worries about assuming the throne are derailed when it becomes clear that someone -- or some fae -- is masterminding violent attacks to discourage peace.