Laurell K. Hamilton

»You can't trust anyone who sleeps with monsters». That's what Anita Blake had always believed. But now she was sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So when an arsonist began to target vampire victims, the creatures of the night turned to their former enemy. For now only «The Executioner» could save them from the inferno...

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter for Animators, Inc., is offered a cool mil to raise a 283-year-old corpse. But she knows that «the older the zombie, the bigger the death needed to raise it». Only a human sacrifice is «big» enough to raise this old soul — and Anita's no murderer.