 
Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series   that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning   panache”(Diana Gabaldon). 
 Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest   imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural   hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like   no other...
 Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St.   Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things   too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series   of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable   attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn   to destroy...
 “What The Da Vinci   Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita   Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA   Today