Angel’s Pawn ~ Nalini Singh

This is the first story in the Guild Hunters series.

Ashwini is a hunter, she has been assigned a rescue mission, she is to rescue a kidnapped vampire still under service to an Angel, but she knows she needs help. She enlists the help of Janvier, a vampire long since out of the hundred year service that every vampire serves upon being Made, and one that Ashwini has hunted more than once. Can she trust him to have her back for this mission? Is he as irritating as she has always believed?

Penumbra ~ Keri Arthur

This is the third book in the Spook Squad series.

Sam seems to be getting closer to the truth about her past, but is unsure if she really wants to find out. The dreams seem to be coming more often and they are scaring her.. Plus, Gabriel has finally succeeded in getting Sam to ask for a transfer, but will he like what he gets in exchange?

Memory Zero ~ Keri Arthur

This is the first book in the Spook Squad series.

Sam is a police officer, who has killed her partner, but no one believes her that he was vampire, and trying to kill her. Now she has to figure out what is going on, not only with her partner, but with herself and the world around her. Can she survive long enough to figure it out?

Skin Trade ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the seventeenth book in the Anita Blake series.

I listened to this by audio book, read by Kimberly Alexis.

Anita is called to Las Vegas to, once again, hunt Vittorio, a serial killing vampire who escaped when he was in St. Louis. Along the way she encounters Marmee Noir and figures out just exactly what the Mother of all Vampires wants from her.. Can Anita survive an encounter with both of them?

The Harlequin ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the fifteenth book in the Anita Blake series.

Malcolm, the head of the Church of Eternal Life comes to Anita, to get word to Jean Claude of some very high powered visitors in town. Jean Claude is worried, but not overly so, until the visitors start messing with their vampires, and themselves, despite the messages of peace. Now the question is, can they survive the visit, or will they all die trying? Anita calls on her friend Edward for backup, but he brings in more back up that Anita is not so happy to see, for more reason that one. Can they all survive the experience?

You’re so Vein ~ Christine Warren

This is the sixth book in The Others series.

Dima is in New York in pursuit of a fugitive, a vampire who has escaped from imprisonment in Russia and he is tasked with recapturing. While trying to locate her, he runs across a vampire attacking a human, and rescues her, only to discover that she has ingested enough of the vampire’s blood to start the transformation. He can either help her out, or let her die a painful death.

Ava Markham, who is a long time friend with a woman who has married and become a vampire, and the local Alpha werewolf’s wife, among others, resents all non-humans, until she awakes after an attack on the streets of Manhattan, and discovers that she is now a vampire. How will she face being one of the creatures she fears the most?  And what about the man who keeps telling her she has a lot to learn?

Danse Macabre ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the fourteenth book in the Anita Blake series.

Jean-Claude has made it possible for a vampire ballet troupe to travel around the country putting on their show, and now, for the last show of the tour, there is a large party in St. Louis, and several Masters of the City are visiting frorom all over the country. But Anita’s powers seem to be growing, and are somewhat out of control, it it safe for her to be around these Masters? What will the next catastrophe be?

Narcissus in Chains ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the tenth book in the Anita Blake series.

Anita has known since her return from New Mexico that she is going to have to contact Jean-Claude and Richard and see what they can do to work out their issues. That she cannot continue to be a liablity to them all. When Zachary, one of her leopards, calls one night that Nathanial is in trouble and she needs to come help, she knows that the time has come, she can’t fight this battle on her own. But can she handle the results of marrying the marks? or the rest of the conseqences of the evening?

Blue Moon ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the eighth book in the Anita Blake series.

When Richard is arrested in Tennassee for attempted rape, Anita goes down to figure out what is going on. The local Master is afraid that Jean-Claude is after his territory, and almost kills one of the Wereleopards as a warning. Once Anita finds out why Richard was arrested, can she keep everyone, humans, vampires and weres, alive and whole?

Burnt Offerings ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the seventh book in the Anita Blake series.

Anita is asked to consult on an a firebug case, but is unsure what she can do to help. She also discovers that when she killed Gabriel, she left the WereLeopards with no alpha, and they have spent the last several months as anyone’s meat, now that it is brought to her attention, she feels obligated to do something, and even though Anita and Richard are no longer seeing each other, Anita is still Lupa of the Werewolves, and maybe now is the time to start acting it. On top of it all,  the Council has come to town. They are here to get answers for the death of the Earthmover (Circus of the Damned), and to be sure that Jean-Claude is not forming a council of his own. But can Anita and company survive the Council?