Anita Blake’s skill in working with the dead has always surpassed her abilities to relate to the living, but even her professional life seems to be suffering as she struggles to solve the case of her latest vampire victims. A second body turns up with wounds from multiple vampires – a telltale sign of a master vampire at work – and Anita is forced to question her knowledge of vampires when the body shows signs of returning to life. Now returning to the morgue to stake the master vampire’s first victim before he rises, she finds herself in a bloodbath – squaring off against a new animalistic vampire immune to her control and strong enough to tear her to pieces!
