First, there were the dead in the graveyard two hundred years dead. I've been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried in. Then there were the three dead teenagers in the woods, slaughtered in a way I'd never seen before. And then they found the dead girl, drained of blood and left in her bed. I knew what that meant of coure. It didn't take a degree in prenatural studies to figure out that something was wrong. And I was right in the middle of it. My name is Anita Blake. Welcome to my life... ---back cover.