The sensational new novel from the New York Times bestselling author featuring her vampire-hunting heroine Anita Blake.

I knew without doubt that if any more of the vampires tried to attack us I'd kill them, too, regardless of apparent age, race, sex, or religious affiliations. I was an equal-opportunity executioner; I killed everybody.

My name is Anita Blake and I am a vampire hunter and necromancer, as well as a US Marshal. So when a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up to me to find her.

And when I do, I'm faced with something I've never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people - kids, grandparents, soccer moms - all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving their vampire master. And where there's one martyr, I know there will be more...

But even vampires have monsters that they're afraid of. And I'm one of them...

"'Hamilton remains one of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field'" - Charlaine Harris

"'Anita Blake is one of the most fascinating fictional heroines since Scarlett O'Hara'" - Publishers Weekly

"'What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel'" - USA Today

"'A hardcore guilty pleasure'" - The Times