Guilty Pleasures

**Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 *New York Times* bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon). ** Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other… Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy… **“What *The Da Vinci Code *did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—* USA Today***