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?

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.

A fast-paced new novella in the New York Times bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, plus a mesmerising selection of exotic Laurell K. Hamilton short stories.

When a 15-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up to Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she is faced with something she's never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people, all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving their vampire master.

I am Princess Meredith Nicessus. Legal name Meredith Gentry, because Princess looks so pretentious on a driver's license. I was the first faerie princess born on American soil, but I wouldn't be the only one for much longer...Merry Gentry, ex-private detective, now full-time princess, knew she was descended from fertility goddesses, but when she learned she was about to have triplets, she began to understand what that might mean. Infertility has plagued the high ranks of faerie for centuries. Now nobles of the both courts of faerie are coming to woo Merry and her men at their home in exile in...