Word on the street is that Anita Blake, expert on creatures of the night and vampire killer extraordinaire, is worth half a million dollars. Dead, not alive. With professional killers on your trail, it's not a bad idea to have as much protection as possible, human or otherwise.

Anita Blake, vampire hunter - sharp, sassy, sexy and good fun, finds she's sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So it hits close to home when an arsonist begins to target vampire-owned businesses all over the town.

Her former lover had got himself thrown into jail for assaulting a woman. Anita has just a few days to spring Richard and find out who framed him, and why. There's a full moon coming when Richard, a werewolf, will be facing a lot worse.

Anita Blake, vampire hunter, has dealt with - and destroyed - a lot of monsters, but her old mentor, Edward, may be worse than any of them. Edward's got problems and he needs Anita's help.

Returning to St. Louis after a tough case in New Mexico, work is the last thing that Anita Blake, vampire hunter, wants to think about. But when a wereleopard is abducted from a seedy club, Anita is once more plunged into the dark world of crime.

When Anita is asked to reanimate the body of a long-dead corpse it seems like just another case. But the corpse may hold the secret to an ancient crime that not everyone wants remembered. An unknown and terrifying menace moves to stop her investigation and Anita must employ all her deadly skill.

When the police draft in Anita Blake to help solve a particularly grisly case, she will need to call on all her famous toughness. However, with clients clamouring for her to raise more dead and the partly human clamouring for her affections it seems unlikely she will get time to dwell on it.

Anita Blake, preternatural expert and feared executioner, is less interested in vampire politics than in the ancient, ordinary dread that women down the ages have experienced: am I pregnant? And, if so, is the father a vampire, a werewolf or someone else entirely?

The first warning is unexpected and calculated. Malcolm, head of the vampire Church of Eternal Life, is no friend to Anita Blake. So when he asks for her help against creatures so feared that no vampire will willingly speak their name, Anita is surprised. But the Harlequin require different rules.

Jason is a werewolf. He's also one of Anita Blake's best friends and sometimes her lover. And right now he needs her - not to be a vampire hunter, or a federal marshal, or a necromancer. Because his father is dying he wants Anita to make him look like an everyday guy, helping him say good-bye to the abusive father he never loved.