Laurell K. Hamilton
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The triumvirate created by Jean-Claude, Anita Blake and Richard Zeeman has made Jean-Claude the most powerful vampire in the U.S. But will all their combined might be enough to defeat the assassins coming to St. Louis?
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Anita Blake can raise the dead—she just can’t resurrect them. Try telling that to Tony Bennington, who wants her to raise his beloved wife at any cost. Even if that cost is the death of every werewolf Anita loves most!
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Merry refuses the throne of faerie, choosing exile in L.A. to protect her unborn children. But the mortal world is no haven. Someone is killing the fae, and people she magically healed are suddenly performing miracles!
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When someone sends her a head from Las Vegas, Anita and Edward hunt for the killer…but it’s worse than she thought.
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Pregnant at last, Merry Gentry contends with dangerous rivals as she finds herself the queen of yet another fae throne.
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In the latest juicy Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel, Anita’s ardeur goes off the charts when an encounter with two weretigers stirs her own inner beasts—and makes her the cat’s paw of the Vampire Queen.
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Merry’s in L.A., but her guards—accused of a shocking crime—are caught between the courts of faerie and human law.
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Anita Blake faces the challenge of a lifetime when creatures so feared—that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names—enter her world. And to be contacted by them is to be under sentence of death….
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To save one of her lovers, Merry makes a deal with her Aunt Andais, Queen of the Unseelie Court, to revive the dead gardens at the heart of the elven realms. But the gardens have their own perils….
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Not only is Anita Blake an Animator and Vampire Slayer, this tough-as-nails babe just may be facing a new challenge: motherhood. The fourteenth installment in Hamilton’s sensational series.
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L.A. is a place where people come to hide. I, Princess Meredith NicEssus, came to hide from the peril and deception of my real home—the dangerous immortal world of the fey. As private eye Merry Gentry, I solve supernatural crimes in Los Angeles, aided by my magical skills. As Princess Meredith, I am heir to the dark throne of the Unseelie Court. But how much of my human side will I have to give up, and how much of the sinister side of faerie must I embrace to sit on a throne that has ruled through bloodshed and violence for centuries? It will happen only if I survive long enough to produce an heir…. For enemies watch my every move. Prince Cel, my cousin and rival for the throne, strives to have me killed even now from his prison cell. Some Unseelie nobles have waited centuries for my aunt Andais, Queen of Air and Darkness, to become weak enough to overthrow. Unknown assassins move against us. The threat could drive us to allow human police into faerie for the first time in our history. I need my friends now more than ever. To keep my alliance with the Goblin Court, I have to attend a ball in my honor—a frightening and erotic dance that can end only in the beds of the half-sidhe, half-goblin brothers, Holly and Ivy. Feared warriors, they are devoid of magic, and it will be my pleasure to awaken their powers—if I can. Before that, I must continue my unrelenting quest to get pregnant. Nights of delirious passion await, as I embrace Sholto, the Lord of That Which Passes Between, in all his alien beauty…as I explore new delights with the butterfly-winged demi-fey…as my adoring bodyguards do more than just guard my body. I will bed men I do not know and do not trust in a bid for political and military might. For strange things are happening in the courts of faerie—my world is crumbling, and I may be the only one to set it right. Warning: Explicit sex, violence and language. (366 pp.)
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Anita Blake must deal with her feelings for were-leopard Micah while raising the most dangerous zombie of her career.
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Princess Merry must bear a child before her evil cousin—or it could mean her death....
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If Merry Gentry is to claim the Unseelie throne, she must bear a child before her mad cousin, Cel, fathers one. But while her loyal bodyguards line up for the honor, a merciless killer is unleashed from Faerie.
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Meet Princess Meredith NicEssus—third in line for a throne of Faerie…and target of her own family, who want her dead. Armed with her personal Glamour, she’s been lucky, but now they’re about to catch up with her.
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LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Laurell K. Hamilton: Ultimate Escapes
Laurell K. Hamilton's passion for fantasy took root early—and a bit tragically. When her mother died in a car accident, Hamilton was raised by her grandmother, whom Hamilton credits with sparking her interest in fantasy. The older woman told horror stories that Hamilton remembers to this day. Growing up in the Midwest, Hamilton's first encounter with fantasy fiction was entitled "Pigeon from Hell," and soon after, she discovered The Natural History of the Vampire in her school library.
Years later, childhood reading and those bedtime tales would dovetail with influences like Robert B. Parker's Spencer series and Robert E. Howard's Conan The Barbarian, to create Hamilton's popular series, Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter. Now, Hamilton has found new success with her exploration of an entirely different realm of fantasy.
In her latest works, it's not vampires but faerie who share the world with human beings. In the best-selling A Kiss of Shadows, Hamilton introduces Meredith, a lovely fey princess on the run from the faerie court. A Caress of Twilight finds Meredith working as a private investigator in L.A.—and in a furious race with cousin Prince Cel for the throne of the Unseelie Court. The first of the two to successfully procreate wins the crown. Meredith takes on a series of lovers with passion and zest, dodging assassination attempts, and even a serial killer who stalks the city's fey and human populations.
Hamilton likes to spice up her dark and magical plot lines with healthy doses of sex and violence. "Two things I do well in books are sex and violence," she says. "I want a kiss to be so believable that it gives the reader shivers." In a lesser author's hands, such tactics might seem gratuitous, but Hamilton's prose is grounded by her first person narrative and her research into mythology and folklore.
"I think people have a real need to believe in things invisible," says Hamilton. "I think that in times of stress, we often turn to escapism." With her latest series, Hamilton continues to provide readers the means to do just that.
