Laurell K. Hamilton

In this anthology, 16 authors have woven together brand-new stories that speak to the darkness and despair that life brings while reminding us that good deeds, humor, love, sacrifice, dedication, and following our joy can ignite a light that burns so bright the darkness cannot last....

Rafael, king of the wererats, must fight to the death to defend his crown. He wants Anita Blake, one of his closest allies, with him as he faces an opponent unlike any he’s faced before. He will ask Anita to risk everything to be at his side....

Angels walk among us, but so do other unearthly beings in this brand new series by number-one New York Times best-selling author Laurell K. Hamilton....

Listeners will learn how Anita Blake started raising the dead-and killing the undead. And how she met Jean Claude, the master vampire destined to become not only her biggest nemesis but her greatest lover....

"All it would take was my true name being mentioned after dark, and it would float back to my aunt....

A brutal murder, a suspect in jail, and an execution planned - but what if the wrong person is about to be killed? Anita Blake flies to a tiny community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on an emergency consult....

Anita attends the wedding of her close friend but finds that even on the happiest of days there are wounds that need healing. She and the wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel are asked to talk to the bride's 13-year-old brother, Tomas, who is struggling to recover from a recent gunshot wound....

For most people, summer barbecues are nothing to be afraid of. But Anita isn't exactly plain vanilla - and neither is her love life. So it takes a special kind of courage to attend a barbecue thrown by her friend Sergeant Zerbrowski....

In The Laughing Corpse, a creature from beyond the grave is tearing a swath of murder through St. Louis. And Anita will learn that there are some secrets better left buried - and some people better off dead....

"I am Meredith Gentry, P.I., solving cases in Los Angeles, far from the peril and deception of my real home - because I am also Princess Meredith, heir to the darkest throne faerie has to offer....

You'd think I'd get used to seeing such a beautiful man and knowing he was mine, but it never grew old, as if his beauty and the fact that he was mine, and I was his, would forever surprise me.... 

"I am Meredith Gentry, princess and heir apparent to the throne in the realm of faerie, onetime private investigator in the mortal world....

A favor for a friend puts Anita Blake in the center of a full-blown scandal that threatens master vampire Jean-Claude's reign - and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queen's new rise to power....

"I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne of fairie....

A rogue master vampire hits town, and Anita gets caught in the middle of an undead turf war. Jean-Claude, the Master Vamp of the city, wants her for his own - but his enemies have other plans....

In the thralls of supernatural passion, Anita Blake faces a most human dilemma....

Vampire hunter Anita Blake finds herself the victim when a $500,000 price is put on her head, and the two men in her life-a vampire and a werewolf-aren't helping the situation....

After eluding relentless assassination attempts by Prince Cel, her cousin and rival for the Faerie crown, Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private eye, has a whole new set of problems....

Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. But when someone else sets his sights on her prey, she must save them both from the inferno....

Once a sworn enemy of all monsters, Anita is now the human consort of both Jean-Claude, the master vampire, and Micah, the leopard shape-shifter. When a centuries-old vampire targets Jean-Claude and his clan, Anita finds herself tested as never before....