The all-new novel in the #1 bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. The triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude, necromancer Anita Blake, and werewolf Richard Zeeman has made Jean-Claude one of the most powerful vampires in the U.S. He's consolidating power in himself...
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Anita Blake: Vampire Executioner, Animator, Necromancer, Federal Marshall, Jean-Claude's Human Servant, Nimir-Ra of the Blood Drinker's Clan, Lupa & Bolverk of Thronnos Rokke Clan, 1/3 of a triumvirate with Jean-Claude and Richard, 1/3 of a triumvirate with Damian and Nathaniel, Succubus, Damian's Master, Nicky's Master, Carries five strains of lycanthropy - wolf, leopard, lion, tiger and a mystery strain
Jean-Claude: Master Vampire, Master of the City of St. Louis, Anita's lover, Anita's Master, Richard's Master, 1/3 of a triumvirate with Anita and Richard, owns Guilty Pleasures, Circus of the Damned, The Laughing Corpse & Danse Macabre, Incubus
Asher: Master Vampire, Jean-Claude's second in command. Jean-Claude & Anita's lover
Micah Callahan: Wereleopard, Nimir-Raj of the Blood Drinker's Clan, Head of the Lycanthrope Coalition, Anita's live-in lover
Richard Zeeman: Werewolf, Ulfric of the Thronnos Rokke Clan, Junior High Science Teacher. He is keeping his lycanthropy a secret in order to keep his job. Jean-Claude's Wolf to Call, 1/3 of a triumvirate with Anita and Jean-Claude, Anita's ex-fiance, Anita's lover
Nathaniel Graison: Wereleopard, Member of the Blood Drinker's Clan, Anita's Leopard to Call, Stripper at Guilty Pleasures, 1/3 of a triumvirate with Anita and Damian, Anita's live-in lover, Jason's best friend.
Monica Vespucci: is a lawyer that handle Jean Claude's affairs, her husband was a vampire, and have a son named Matthew. Anita don't trust her.
Jason Schuyler: Werewolf, Member of the of the Thronnos Rokke Clan, Jean-Claude's pomme de sang, Stripper at Guilty Pleasures, Nathaniel's best friend, Anita's Wolf to Call, Anita's lover
Damian: Vampire, Anita's vampire servant, 1/3 of a triumvirate with Anita and Nathaniel, Dancer at Danse Macabre
Belle Morte: is a powerful vampire, who's a member of the council in Europe, Jean Claude and Asher's sire, and her line rule w/ sex. Wolf is her animal to call
“'I'm a big boy now, 'Nita. I kiss like a big boy now.' Cheek kisses had been fine until about two weeks ago, and now Matthew was very certain that cheek kisses were baby kisses.”
“I cleaned up well, but Jean-Cleade made me feel like I'd sneaked into the Louvre and stolen a masterpiece off the wall so I could roll around on it naked.”
“I really wanted to get dressed, and I was really kicking myself that I'd given up so easily on finding my weapons in the living room, but it was a mess. So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.”
Nietzsche: ‘Is it better to outmonster the monster or to be quietly devoured?’
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Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.
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“When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.”
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Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.
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“Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.”
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“It’s better to be loved than feared, but if you can’t be loved, then fear will do,”
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Until I’d hung out with enough men I’d never realized that fuck you could be an endearment of the highest order.
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I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.
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Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and fucks it up. Ain’t it always the way.
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When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.
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