When three dead teenagers are slaughtered in a way no one had ever seen before, and a girl is found drained of blood in her bed, it's obvious that something is very wrong in and around Branson, Missouri. Anita Blake is right in the middle of it all. In addition to finding out what happened to the teenagers she also needs to raise an entire graveyard of two-hundred-year-old corpses. Today is going to be busy.

In a world where vampires, zombies and werewolves are legal citizens of the United States, Anita Blake is an "animator" - a profession that involves raising the dead for a living. But Anita is also moonlights as a vampire hunter, called in to resolve situations that are too much for conventional police to handle. Now, a series of murdered vampires are turning up across St. Louis, and Anita Blake has been recruited to bring the killer to justice.

With a price on her head and professional hitmen on her trail, Anita Blake--vampire killer, zombie reanimator, and expert on the supernatural--receives unexpected assistance from an alpha werewolf and a master vampire.

When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss ... but the creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington's grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long.

Edward, a monster hunter even more ruthless than Anita, asks her to come to Albuquerque to help him track down a creature so vicious that even he is spooked: it rips apart its victims and leaves its survivors skinned alive. For help in the investigation, they have to call on the city's master vampire, Itzpapalotl (Aztec for "obsidian butterfly"). This former Aztec priestess/nightclub owner agrees to answer questions--but only after dazzlingly displaying...

Assassins are coming to St. Louis to kill master vampire Jean-Claude, necromancer Anita Blake, and werewolf Richard Zeeman. Anita knows they're coming, but even being forewarned doesn't mean the triumvirate will win.

A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect "monsters" are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, U.S. Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer.The #1 New York Times bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series continues!

Vampire hunter Anita Blake, agreeing to accompany her friend, and sometimes lover, werewolf Jason Schulyer to his dying father's bedside, is unaware that Jean-Claude's ability to sense danger has been suppressed and Marmme Noir is planning to attack her.

"When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she's faced with something she's never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people--kids, grandparents, soccer moms--all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where there's one martyr, there will be more...But even vampires hae monster that they're afraid of. And Anita is one of them."--Publisher....

When two of the were leopards in her care are abducted at a seedy club called Narcissus in Chains, vampire hunter Anita Blake melds with her lovers, vampire Jean-Claude and werewolf Richard, in order to gain access to their powers and finds herself losing more and more of her humanity.