Amazon Review
When Anita Blake, necromancer and vampire executioner, started sleeping with the vampire Jean-Claude, she thought she was done with her relationship with Richard, leader of St Louis' large pack of werewolves. She loves him still, but she could not cope with watching him eat a defeated enemy.

When he is accused of rape in a small corrupt town out in the sticks she joins his pack-mates and his family in trying to clear his name and finds herself in trouble as usual. For one thing, Richard has made an enemy of a powerful sorcerer whose foes tend to turn up horribly dead; for another, she and Jean-Claude are trespassing in the territory of another vampire Master, one who feeds on fear and can spread a deadly rot with his touch.

As always, Laurell K. Hamilton writes well about both sexual passion and the sheer wild thrill of powerful magics--these are books written without the brake on, in which anything may happen and every climax just leads to further wonderful excess. Hamilton is good on cityscapes--here she proves herself just as accomplished with the beauty and terror of dark woods by night and the tang of blood on cold clean wind. --Roz Kaveney