The sensational new novel from the New York Times bestselling author featuring her vampire-hunting heroine Anita Blake.

I am back in St Louis and trying to live a normal life as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a US Marshal. I have my lovers, my friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all this ordinary happiness a vampire from my past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, and it s hard to kill a god.

The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with me and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to emigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken... And if the Mother of All Darkness can t succeed in taking over my body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again.