
Hamilton is the reigning queen of the urban fantasy world.”-Midwest Book ReviewLaurell K. And Anita will learn that gossip and innuendo can be just as dangerous as anything the undead can throw at her…Includes a preview of Affliction, the new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel“Hamilton remains one of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.”-Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author“Long before Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series and Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse novels, sexy, strong-willed vampire hunter Anita Blake.”-USA Today“Laurell K. But it doesn’t take long for tensions to rise among the adults and kids. Walking into a backyard full of cops and their families with wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel both looking gorgeous on her arm won’t be easy, even with almost-four-year-old Matthew Vespucci to break the ice…Anita is determined to have a good time with her family, just like everyone else. So it takes a special kind of courage to attend a barbecue thrown by her friend Sergeant Zerbrowski.

But Anita isn’t exactly plain vanilla-and neither is her love life. Hamilton.For most people, summer barbecues are nothing to be afraid of.

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