On the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series

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Ardeur

Edited by Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series is a literary sensation, thanks to its strong female hero, well-fleshed (both literally and literarily) characters and unabashed attitude toward sex. The world Hamilton has created is powerfully compelling and stunningly complex—and it gets deeper and richer, and more perilous, with every book.

Straddling the series’ dominant themes of sex and power, Ardeur gives Anita fans a deeper look into the dynamics, both personal political, that have kept readers fascinated throughout the run of the series. Why is the ardeur the very best thing that could have happened to Anita, personally (aside from all the sex it requires her to have with hot men)? How is Anita’s alternate United States a logical legal extension of our own? And as the series continues, what other bargains might Anita have to make with herself and others in order to keep the people she loves safe from harm?

Essays

• Giving the Devil Her DueNick Mamatas
• Girls Gone WildHeather Swain
• Ambiguous AnitaLilith Saintcrow
• Dating the MonstersL.Jagi Lamplighter
• Bon RapportsMarella Sands
• Mom! Something's Sucking on My Neck!Cathy Clamp
• The Other Side of the StreetAlasdair Stuart
• The Domestication of a Vampire ExecutionerNatasha Fondren
• Ardeur's PurposeDevon Ellington
• Trying the SystemMelissa Tatum
• Are the Fangs Real?Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D.
• Death Becomes HerSharon Ashwood
• Death's Got Your BackVera Nazarian
• Showing the ScarsJacob Clifton