Learning that a vampire serial killer has been preying on the citizens of Las Vegas, vampire hunter Anita Blake attempts to warn local authorities only to discover that ten officers and an executioner have already been brought down.

Already tasked with shielding half of his soul, Skyler must save Carpathian Dimitri after he is marked for extermination by the Lycans.

Anita Blake meets with a possible client, Tony Bennington, who wishes Anita to use her skills as a necromancer to reanimate his recently deceased wife.

Despite the dangers to his lifemate Raven and their daughter Savannah, Mikhail Dubrinsky, Prince of the Carpathians, risks everything to protect his people from the extinction of their species, as Carpathians gather from around the world to take on theiradversaries.

Anita uses her familiarity with zombies to investigate why Micah's father is dying from an inexplicable flesh-rotting disease.

Held captive for centuries and finally freed, Tatijana vowed to now live only by her rules. She is Carpathian. Dragonseeker. She'll never again acquiesce to authority - inhuman or human. Then Tatijana is drawn to the forest-scent of a stranger - and the freedom and wild nature it represents. And now everything she is fighting for - and running from - will change.

On the verge of becoming a vampire, Manolito De La Cruz is called back to his Carpathian homeland and unexpectedly finds his destined lifemate, MaryAnne Delaney, who has no idea of the lengths that Manolito will go to to keep his mate.

"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 have monsters that they're afraid of. And Anita is one of them..."--Publisher....