This collection of all-new stories of dark seduction includes tales of the romantic vampire by today's most provocative authors. Includes a new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story by Hamilton; a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse tale by Charlaine Harris; and works by MaryJanice Davidson, Angela Knight, and Vickie Taylor. Step closer to the hot-blooded edge of passion as a strange new mythology of the night is unveiled. The bite is back in vampire fiction as today's most provocative authors cast their irresistible spells on you. Davidson's "Biting in Plain Sight" revisits her Undead universe with a touching love story about a benevolent vampire and her human suitor and the tragedy that brings them together. Hamilton's "The Girl Who Was Infatuated with Death" is set in time between the novels Blue Moon and Obsidian Butterfly. Vampire hunter Anita Blake, just beginning to come to grips with her recent metaphysical connection with master vampire Jean-Claude, takes a highly unusual case. A runaway teenager with bone cancer wants to become a vampire; but in order for her to change, another vampire must in essence murder a child. Blake agrees to find the rogue bloodsucker and pass judgment as only she knows how. In "One Word Answer" by Harris, everyone's favorite waitress, Sookie Stackhouse, learns that her only cousin has been murdered by one of the undead -- and the vampire Queen of Louisiana has sent her condolences in the form of an unusual gift. Angela Knight’s “Galahad” is book #3 in the Mageverse series: Teacher turned witch . . . Caroline Lang finds herself teamed with Galahad in a search to find and kill the demon's vampire creations. In Taylor's "Blood Lust," a researcher whose groundbreaking formula for synthetic blood was stolen by a maniacal vampire takes vengeance by becoming one of the undead!
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