When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up to U. S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she's faced with something she's never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people kids, grandparents, soccer moms; all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where there's one martyr, there will be more. But even vampires have monsters that they are afraid of. And Anita is one of them.
