Part of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, book 10
First published 2002
Anita Blake comes back to St. Louis after six months away, still torn between her two lovers: Jean-Claude the vampire and Richard the werewolf. Her return becomes urgent when two wereleopards under her protection get kidnapped at Narcissus in Chains, a disreputable club. Anita teams up with both her boyfriends to free the captives, but the rescue goes wrong. She suffers injuries that could transform her into a wereleopard. Richard's rage boils over as he seizes the wereleopard he blames for the mess and prepares to kill him. Now Anita must protect this wereleopard from Richard and his werewolf pack, watching her relationship with Richard crumble. The danger escalates when she discovers the kidnappers are hunting other lycanthropes across the city. She might be their next target. The tenth Anita Blake novel delivers explicit sexual content and brutal violence as the vampire hunter navigates supernatural politics and personal betrayal.
Genres: romance, fantasy, paranormal, urban-fantasy
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, love-triangle
Setting: St. Louis
Period: Contemporary
644 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Berkley
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content, violence