Laurell K. Hamilton
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Pregnant at last, Merry Gentry contends with dangerous rivals as she finds herself the queen of yet another fae throne.
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Anita Blake is thrust into a scandal that threatens Jean-Claude's reign and makes her the pawn of the Vampire Queen.
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Anita Blake faces the challenge of a lifetime when creatures so feared—that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names—enter her world. And to be contacted by them is to be under sentence of death….
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A Merry Gentry novel.To save one of her lovers, Merry makes a deal with her Aunt Andais, Queen of the Unseelie Court, to revive the dead gardens at the heart of the elven realms. But the gardens have their own perils....
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Just when the sexual power between Anita and Master Vampire Jean-Claude and Richard the werewolf—is reaching new levels, Anita thinks she's pregnant. She knows this is no way to bring up a baby....
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Still trying to produce an heir to the Unseelie throne, Merry dodges assassins in both worlds. Will the sidhe invite human police into faerie?
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A routine assignment turns difficult when Anita Blake must deal with her feelings for were-leopard Micah while raising the most dangerous zombie of her career. Warning: Sexual content.
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Princess Meredith is heir to the throne...if she can stay alive long enough to claim it. All she has to do is bear a child...before her rival fathers one. In Laurell K. Hamilton's latest novel, that's only part of the danger..
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Anita faces her two toughest challenges to date. In Burnt Offerings, it's the Vampire High Council. And in Blue Moon, it's getting werewolf Richard, a high school teacher, out of the slammer before school starts.
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With missing werewolves, ancient evil, and professional hit men, what's Anita Blake to do but turn to the men in her life—a master vampire and an alpha werewolf! The Lunatic Café; Bloody Bones; The Killing Dance.
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St. Louis has a major tourist attraction—Vampires. And now that they have civil rights, protecting them can get pretty grisly. Includes Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse and Circus of the Damned.
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LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Laurell K. Hamilton: Ultimate Escapes
Laurell K. Hamilton's passion for fantasy took root early—and a bit tragically. When her mother died in a car accident, Hamilton was raised by her grandmother, whom Hamilton credits with sparking her interest in fantasy. The older woman told horror stories that Hamilton remembers to this day. Growing up in the Midwest, Hamilton's first encounter with fantasy fiction was entitled "Pigeon from Hell," and soon after, she discovered The Natural History of the Vampire in her school library.
Years later, childhood reading and those bedtime tales would dovetail with influences like Robert B. Parker's Spencer series and Robert E. Howard's Conan The Barbarian, to create Hamilton's popular series, Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter. Now, Hamilton has found new success with her exploration of an entirely different realm of fantasy.
In her latest works, it's not vampires but faerie who share the world with human beings. In the best-selling A Kiss of Shadows, Hamilton introduces Meredith, a lovely fey princess on the run from the faerie court. A Caress of Twilight finds Meredith working as a private investigator in L.A.—and in a furious race with cousin Prince Cel for the throne of the Unseelie Court. The first of the two to successfully procreate wins the crown. Meredith takes on a series of lovers with passion and zest, dodging assassination attempts, and even a serial killer who stalks the city's fey and human populations.
Hamilton likes to spice up her dark and magical plot lines with healthy doses of sex and violence. "Two things I do well in books are sex and violence," she says. "I want a kiss to be so believable that it gives the reader shivers." In a lesser author's hands, such tactics might seem gratuitous, but Hamilton's prose is grounded by her first person narrative and her research into mythology and folklore.
"I think people have a real need to believe in things invisible," says Hamilton. "I think that in times of stress, we often turn to escapism." With her latest series, Hamilton continues to provide readers the means to do just that.
