Kiss the Dead

I knew without doubt that if any more of the vampires tried to attack us I'd kill them too regardless of apparent age race sex or religious affiliations. I was an equal-opportunity executioner; I killed everybody.

My name is Anita Blake and I am a vampire hunter and necromancer as well as a US Marshal. So when a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires it's up to me to find her.

And when I do I'm faced with something I've never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people - kids grandparents soccer moms - all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving their vampire master. And where there's one martyr I know there will be more...

But even vampires have monsters that they're afraid of. And I'm one of them...