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A Caress Of Twilight
Caress of Twilight, a continuation of Kiss of Shadows, unveils more mystery, magic and sex for Merry Gentry, aka Princess Meredith. The race is on to see who can conceive a child first, Merry or her cousin, prince Cel. Since prince Cel is being tortured throughout the duration of this novel, Merry has a pretty good head start. That is, if she doesn't managed to get killed by her uncle, King Taranis of the Seelie Court. ...
A Kiss of Shadows
Meredith Gentry, also known as Princess Meredith NicEssues and the first in line to the Fey Throne, works as a Private Investigator in Los Angeles at the Grey Detective Agency. Here she is consistently getting into arguments with her boss Jeremy Grey due to her strong-willed personality and desire to solve cases sometimes in a reckless manner. Although she loves her job, she finds keeping her status as royalty a burden and even though the magical realm ...
A Lick of Frost
Something is rotten in Los Angeles and the realm of the Fey (Faerie) Realm, as Merry Gentry, Princess and heir to the Seelie (Faerie Throne) and her guards find themselves trapped in a legal battle as three of her guards are accused of rape by King Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, also known as the Unseelie Court and Merry's quite insane Uncle. The Unseelie Court are the outcasts from the Fey world and the ying to the yang of the Seelie Court. Hoping...
A Stroke of Midnight
This is the 4th book in the series about Princess Meredith of the faerie Unseelie Court. The faeries are broken up into the Seelie Court of Light and Illusion and the Unseelie Court of Air and Darkeness. To become heir to the throne of the Unseelie Court the Queen has set both Meredith and her sadistic son Prince Cel on a race to become/get someone pregnant, to insure that the blood lines will survive. Once someone is pregnant they will marry the mate...

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Affliction
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Necromancer, must leave St. Louis to investigate a disease that is spreading among a small town's residents that could be the result of a zombie bite. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Necromancer, is still adjusting to life with her boyfriend's Micah and Nathaniel who happen to shape shifters, while trying to continue her job assisting with supernatural cases with the local St. Louis law enforcement and deal with vampire po...
Blood Noir
Anita Blake, Necromancer and Federal Marshal travels with her best friend Jason to his hometown to reconcile with his dying father only to find herself under attack by the Mother of All Darkness. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Federal Marshal and Necromancer finds it easy to handle the big bad guys on a daily basis that infect the city of St. Louis, but when it comes to personal matters she is a little less savvy. So when her best friend and lover, Jason S...
Bloody Bones
Anita travels to Branson Missouri with Jean-Claude to investigate the deaths of several teenagers in the area. Quick, lots of action. Anita almost overcome by her desire to be loved by a mother figure....
Blue Moon
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Necromancer, must travel from St. Louis to Myerton, TN when she receives a call that her ex-boyfriend, Richard has been accused of rape. Anita Blake, Federal Marshal, Necromancer and Vampire Hunter has always been a woman about the job. A successful necromancer for one of the best agencies in St. Louis as well as friend to the Master Vampire of the city, Jean Claude, Anita continues to find herself at odds when it comes t...
Burnt Offerings
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Necromancer, finds herself investigating a string of arson crimes while trying to secure the safety of the shape shifters in St. Louis when the Vampire Council comes into town. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Necromancer just can't seem to catch a break and it is beginning to wear her down. For the past year, it seems Anita is either putting out fires in her love life or dealing with supernatural crime. On top of that, now...
Cerulean Sins
Cerulean Sins is the 11th book in the Anita Blake series. In this book, Belle Morte, a member of the Vampire Council, sends some of her vampires to visit Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire of St. Louis and Anita's lover. As vampire politics become increasingly complex and vicious, Anita uses weapons of sex, violence, and magic....

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Danse Macabre
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Necromancer, finds herself struggling with the fact she might be pregnant all while trying to navigate the supernatural political landscape in St. Louis. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Necromancer and Federal Marshal can never seem to catch a break and her recent drama isn't one she can't easily solve due to the fact she might be pregnant. While under normal circumstances this wouldn't be a big deal, the problem is her lover...
Flirt
Anita Blake, Necromancer and Federal Marshal is approached to raise the dead wife of a rich businessman only to find herself in danger of becoming the prey of the local werelion pride. When Anita Blake, St. Louis Federal Marshal and local necromancer (raiser of the dead) is approached by a rich socialite named Tony Bennington, she initially refuses due to the nature of the job and not knowing Tony's real motives. Anita, who likes things cut and dry and u...
Guilty Pleasures
In an alternat reality St. Louis, Anita Blake, the police's expert on vampire and crimes, finds herself blackmailed into helping the myterious master-vampire of the city. Something is killing of the oldest and most powerful of St. Louis's vampires. Anita must stop the murders before the vampires turn on her or worse yet--turn her into a human servant. ...
Incubus Dreams
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Necromancer must balance her work life where must investigate a string of vampire killings as well as personal life as her new roommate Nathaniel demands to be her lover, all the while trying to mitigate vampire politics in the city of St. Louis. After returning to St. Louis after her away mission in Las Vegas, Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Necromancer finds her life once again in a whirlwind of drama as her personal lif...
Lunatic Cafe
Anita Blake explores the disappearances of several lycanthropes at the behest of the pack leader who is engaged in a battle for control of the werewolf pack with Anita's part-time boyfriend, Richard....
Micah
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Zombie Animator is put on assignment unexpectedly when her coworker, Larry Kirkland is called off his case in Philadelphia due to his wife's pregnancy. Never looking to turn down work, Anita looks into the case which is fairly routine and involves raising a witness from the dead in order to testify in an investigation. While nothing seems out of order, Anita begins to suspect there could be something amiss as her cases usu...

Laurell K. Hamilton novels

Mistral's Kiss
Merry Gentry, Princess and Heir to the Fey Throne, finds herself slipping and out of reality as the actions in her dreams restore magic to the Unseelie courts with unfortunate consequences. Several weeks after the events of, A Stroke of Midnight, Princess Merry Gentry finds herself slipping in and out of a dreamlike state where acts within her dreams bring about consequences in the real world. While stuck in one of these dreams, Merry finds herself given...
Narcissus In Chains
This is the 10th Anita Blake vampire hunter book, and it shows us a more grown-up Anita. After spending six months away from her lovers, friends, and police work, Anita is back in St. Louis, hoping to patch things up. Only she finds out that things have gone down the drain while she was gone, and more bad has shown up in town, kidnapping various shapeshifters. Anita takes on the task of finding the kidnapper even as she attempts to mend the ties she h...
Nightseer
The book starts with the main character, Keleios, as a 5 year old girl who dreams a terrible nightmare in which her mother is murdered by an evil woman named Harque, and herself and her sister are taken prisoner and tortured. Three days later, these events come to pass, and the girls are rescued only 2 days later, but that was more than enough time to permanently scar. The story starts up again 18 years later, Keleios is outside the tower of...
Obsidian Butterfly
Anita Blake is a vampire executioner. She owes a friend a favor so he calls her to help solve some strange murders. The lucky victims are the people that actually died. However, there are some victims that are still alive. Anita believes they have been turned into zombie like creatures and she is the only one that can track the evil that has caused this terror. ...
Seduced by Midnight
This is the 4th book in the series about Princess Meredith of the faerie Unseelie Court. The faeries are broken up into the Seelie Court of Light and Illusion and the Unseelie Court of Air and Darkness. To become heir to the throne of the Unseelie Court the Queen has set both Meredith and her sadistic son Prince Cel on a race to become/get someone pregnant, to insure that the blood lines will survive. Merry while being a private investigator is tr...
Seduced By Moonlight
Merry Gentry is a private detective and faery priness living with her chosen 'harem' of men/bodyguards, one of whom must sire her child by order of her aunt the Queen of the Unseelie Court. The incentive is the throne, but Merry's cousin Cel is also in line and will do anything to be the first to have a child. Unknown assasins now target Merry, and as her powers (and those of the others) around her grow and spiral out of control a new killer emerges....

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Swallowing Darkness
Picking up directly after, A Lick of Frost, we find Merry Gentry (Meredith Nic Essus) and Princess of the Faerie finally winning the race for the throne and surpassing her cousin Prince Cel, who although verifiably insane, has still sought after the throne for himself. Recovering in the hospital after her rape and kidnapping at the hand of her Uncle King Taranis, Merry is worried about her safety. Doyle and the other guards assure Merry that the Fae ...
The Harlequin
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Necromancer finds herself caught in a political power struggle in the world of the vampires when the Vampire Law Enforcement knows as The Harlequin threaten to come to St. Louis. St. Louis on the brink of a supernatural war and Anita Blake, vampire hunter, necromancer and federal marshal is once again caught in the middle. When Jean Claude, the master vampire of St. Louis and one of Anita's many boyfriends receives a threa...
The Killing Dance
Someone has taken out a contract on Anita Blake's life and she must stay alive long enough to figure out who, while being protected by the moderately menacing Edward, and her two part-time boyfriends, vampire Jean-Claude and werewolf Richard. Sub-plot is the evil machinations of the current lupa of the pack and her were-leopard sidekick....
The Laughing Corpse
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Necromancer, finds herself being hired by a local millionaire named Harold Gaynor who was her to raise a 300 year old corpse, for which he will pay her millions for her services and provide the human sacrifice needed to complete the task. , Anita declines, much to her boss Burt's dismay. Before she is able to make it home, Anita receives word of a murder by Dolph, the head of the SCU (Supernatural Crimes Unit). The gru...
The Lunatic Cafe
Anita Blake is a vampire killer and raises the dead for a living as an animator but now she is drawn into a personal feud between two alpha males of whom one she is involved over the control of a local werewolf pack and she must reevaluate what she thinks is right and wrong while being wary of the advances of the St Louis Vampire master. Anita is a vampire slayer and she also animates the dead but now she is pulled into a personal skirmish which involves...