Maeve

Maeve was a Faerie, and the Winter Lady of the Winter Court. Maeve first appeared in the novel Summer Knight, then again in Proven Guilty and is the chief antagonist in Cold Days.

Description
As the Winter Lady, Maeve was considered to be the Winter Queen in training—"The Queen who is to come"—to possibly become the future Queen of the Winter Court.

Character
•Maeve likes to play the part of the "evil kinktress" (as Fix called it) and using to pull everyones strings.
 * "she never passes the chance to tear the wings off a fly."

Connections

 * Maeve is the daughter of Mab, the Winter Queen.
 * Her twin sister is Sarissa.
 * Handmaiden: Jenny Greenteeth
 * Winter Knight: Lloyd Slate, who she hand-picked herself.
 * Minions: Grimalkin, Redcap, Rawhead. ..

Appearance

 * In one moment, Maeve looked like she could be Lily's fraternal twin.
 * In one moment, Maeve looked like she could be Lily's fraternal twin.
 * In one moment, Maeve looked like she could be Lily's fraternal twin.

Details
Maeve loves the Lemonade at McAnally's Pub which Mac makes with his patented lemonade ice cubes.

Summer Knight
In Summer Knight, investigating Ronald Reuel's death, Harry goes to see Maeve in Undertown led by Elidee at Toot-toot's request and met by Grimalkin, her servant. When Harry asked her if she killed Ronald Reuel, the Summer Knight, she mischievously tries to force a deal on Harry by inducing him with glamour to beget a child with Jenny Greenteeth that he would give to Meave. Harry refuses. Lloyd Slate enters bringing a carved box which he hands to Maeve, kneeling. Maeve becomes enraged at Lloyd because the knife in the box—a military-type knife encrusted with black substance—was not what she wanted. She Kicked Slate, called him a stupid animal and threw the knife at him. He threatened to attack her with it. Maeve orders Jenny to subdue him which she does with a hypodermic needle.

Later, at the battle in the Valley of the Stone Table, Maeve charged up dressed in white armor with a dozen of her Winter Sidhe Warriors—whose armor had a snowflake design—in time to stop a score of Summer warriors from attacking Harry and his team: the Alphas and the Changlings. She had her riders draw the Summer forces away so that Harry could get to the Stone Table. Harry left the traitor Lloyd Slate, who had been beaten badly by Fix with a big monkey-wrench, with Maeve. After the battle, Harry awoke to the sight of Maeve and Mother Winter with Lloyd Slate manacled in ice in obvious pain.

"Something Borrowed"
In "Something Borrowed", displeased over the death of the Tigress, a favourite ghoul assassin of the Winter Court, and looking for revenge, Maeve sent her servant Jenny Greenteeth to ruin Georgia and Billy Borden's wedding.

Proven Guilty
In Proven Guilty, Lily called in Maeve to help answer Harry's questions about why the side are not retaliating against the Red Court for trespassing and summoning Outsiders on Sidhe lands. Harry pressed Maeve on lawful grounds for what she did to Georgia and Billy Borden's wedding as they were under his protection when they killed the Tigress. Maeve conceded and told Harry that Mab readied her force against the Summer Court and ordered that no action be taken against the Red Court. Maeve intimated that Mab has been overtaken by a "mortal contagion" has gone mad in a way similar to Aurora. Harry left with the nagging feeling that it was too easy.

Cold Days
In Cold Days, Harry met Lily at the Botanical Gardens where she told Harry about a contagion, a parasite, that causes people or beings to do horrible things against their nature such as Harry's first three major cases. Maeve showed up and accused Mab of of being contaminated by the contagion and has gone "utterly mad" and plans to "unleash chaos on the world" that night—Halloween.. Maeve and Lily say they think Mab's plan's had something to do with Demonreach. She said that Mab infected Lea during that time she had her bound in ice at Arctis Tor . Maeve and Lily ask Harry to kill Mab, that as the Winter Knight, he can do it because his power comes from Mab.

Harry and team try to determine who is behind the spell required to release the monsters, and if its Outsiders, who let them into this world. Though the Ladies can't lie, they could be wrong. Lily is not that smart and Maeve is crazy.

It is eventually discovered by Harry—and revealed and he convinces Fix to join forces—that Maeve is contaminated, which specifically has allowed her to lie despite her Fae nature. Maeve is manipulating Lily into believing she can detect Nemesis and that Demonreach is a source of evil rather than a prison of it. Using Lily to release the creatures, destroying most of the Midwest as a side effect, Maeve is confronted by Harry halfway through the ritual.

Harry and his friends—Murphy, Thomas, Mouse, Sarissa, Mac and Justine, plus Molly Carpenter hidden under a veil—are rendered helpless by Maeve and her minions including Redcap, Rawhead and some Sidhe. Maeve shot Mac in the stomach. Harry finally figured out that Maeve and Sarissa are twin sisters. When things got desperate, Harry summoned Mab to deal with Maeve using the Circle of Power already called up by Maeve and Lily.

Maeve confronts Mab on her wish to kill her and her training of Sarissa to replace her. In spite, Maeve suddenly shoots Lily in the head, transferring her mantle to Sarissa. With no trustworthy host for her mantle nearby, Maeve believes Mab cannot risk killing her. Unbeknownst to her, Molly Carpenter has also been trained as a potential successor and is hiding nearby. Despite Harry's pleas and best efforts, Murphy—Mab released her bonds with a finger twitch—kills Maeve with a hidden pistol.