A Lick of Frost is the sixth book in the Merry Gentry series by Laurell K. Hamilton.

King Taranis has brought the charges on behalf of the woman allegedly raped by the aforementioned fey.

When Merry and her guards get home after taking a trip to the hospital (as Doyle and Abe got badly hurt from Taranis' attack), they call Aunt Andais to tell her of all that has happened- specifically the offer to rule the Seelie Court.

Andais believes Merry already agreed to rule and abuses one of her guards (Crystall) in a sadistic rage.

The series of mirror-calls end, and Merry finalises the coming together of her, Ash, and Holly for later that night.

The creation of the sithen (faerie land) allows the ring of fertility on her finger to flare to life and Merry realises that she is pregnant with twins.

A phantom image of Merry's children appear by their respective fathers, Rhys, Frost, Galen, Doyle, Mistral, and Sholto.

While out there, Taranis (using illusion to appear as one of her guards) knocks her out and takes her to his bedroom back at the Seelie Court.

Hugh, some others at the Seelie Court, and Doyle (in dog form) sneak her out of the bedroom and into a press conference where she tells the press that Taranis made the Seelie woman (Lady Catarin) believe that it was Rhys, Galen, and Abe who raped her.

The book ends with Merry in an ambulance with Doyle, continuing to mourn Frost and her current situation.

A Lick of Frost features the following major characters: Andais - Queen of Air and Darkness, Merry's aunt, sister of Essus, and mother of Cel.

Founder of the royal male guard, The Ravens, who she has placed under a vow of celibacy that can only be broken by her or Merry.

However, Andais appears to have the best interests of the Court somewhat at heart, and has sworn to abdicate her throne in favor of whoever (Cel or Merry) can demonstrate themselves capable of producing new sidhe children first.

Galen - Youngest guard in The Ravens, Merry's best friend since childhood, and one of her favorite lovers.

Galen is extremely unpolitical, naive, and idealistic, but he is also the voice of simple reasoning for Merry.

Meredith NicEssus - Also known as "Merry Gentry", title heroine, Princess of Flesh and Blood, daughter of Essus, niece to Andais and Taranis.

Rhys - Also known as "Cromm Cruach", former God of Death, guard in The Ravens, and film noir buff.

She refuses to let him into her bed, and when Maeve Reed's house is remade into a sithen he is one of the guards who is injured but none of the fairy dogs will heal him.