Crimson Death (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)

Crimson Death (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)

In her twenty-fifth adventure, vampire hunter and necromancer Anita Blake learns that evil is in the eye of the beholder...?Anita has never seen Damian, her vampire servant, in such a state. The rising sun doesn?t usher in the peaceful death that he desperately needs. Instead, he?s being bombarded with violent nightmares and blood sweats.??And now, with Damian at his most vulnerable, Anita needs him the most. The vampire who created him, who subjected him to centuries of torture, might be losing control, allowing rogue vampires to run wild and break one of their kind?s few strict taboos. ?Some say love is a great motivator, but hatred gets the job done, too. And when Anita joins forces with her friend Edward to stop the carnage, Damian will be at their side, even if it means traveling back to the land where all his nightmares spring from...a place that couldn?t be less welcoming to a vampire, an assassin, and a necromancer:?reland.ReviewPraise for the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series?Hamilton remains one of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.?-#1New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris ??If you?ve never read this series, I highly recommend/strongly suggest having the Anita Blake experience. Vampires, zombies, and shifters, oh my! And trust me, these are not your daughter?s vampires.?-Literati Book Reviews?A sex-positive, kick-ass female protagonist.?-Starburst ??Number oneNew York Times bestseller Hamilton is still thrilling fans...with her amazing multifaceted characters and intricate multilayered world, a mix of erotic romance, crime-drama, and paranormal/fantasy fiction. Her descriptive prose is gritty and raw, with a mosaic of humor and horror to tell this complex, well-detailed story. But it?s her enigmatic stable of stars that continues to shine, managing their improbable interpersonal relationship dynamics.?-Library JournalAbout the AuthorLaurell K. Hamilton is a full-time writer and the #1New York Times bestselling author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and the Merry Gentry series. She lives in a suburb of St. Louis with her family.Excerpt. ?Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.1 I?d fallen asleep cuddled between two of the men I loved most, with one arm flung across their naked bodies so I could touch the third. All three of them were warm when I fell asleep, but when my phone woke me hours later, only two of the bodies in the bed were still warm. The only vampire in the bed had died when the sun came up a mile over our heads in our nice safe cave of a bedroom. It was great for vampires, but if you were afraid of the dark or didn?t like the idea of tons of stone pressing down on your head, well, you couldn?t sleep with us.I scrambled over Nathaniel?s almost fever-hot body for my phone, which was plugged in on the bedside table, but when the screen came on it was his phone, not mine, because his lock screen was a picture of the three of us and mine was a close-up of our hands entwined with the new engagement rings. I finally got my phone and hit the button, but it had already gone to voice mail.Micah asked in a voice thick with sleep, ?Who was it??I squinted at the bright screen in the very dark room and said, ?I don?t recognize the number, or hell, the area code. I think it?s international. Who the hell would be calling me from out of the country??Nathaniel snuggled against the front of my body, burying his face between my breasts, as he tucked himself lower under the covers. He mumbled something, but since he was both the heaviest sleeper and the most likely to talk in his sleep, I didn?t pay much attention.?What time is it?? Micah asked, his voice less sleep-filled and closer to awake.?Five a.m.,? I said. I clicked my phone to black and tried to put it back on the bedside table, but Nathaniel had pinned me and I couldn?t quite reach.?We?ve only been asleep for three hours,? he said in a voic