"Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I'd just like to meet one that's human."
US Paperback Cover 1995		2000 UK Cover

I'm Anita Blake, expert on creatures of the night. I've dined with shapeshifters, danced with werewolves, and been wooed - but not won - by Jean-Claude, the Master of the City.

And now a darkly dangerous vampire named Alejandro has hit town. He wants me for his human servant. A war of the undead has begun. Over me.

Alejandro stroked his free hand through my hair, then grabbed a handful and pulled my head backwards so he could see my eyes. His eyes were solid, absolute black; the whites had drowned. "I will have his name Anita, one way or another."

I spit in his face.

He screamed. Tightening his grip on my wrists until I cried out. "I could have made this pleasant, but now I think I want you to hurt. Look into my eyes, mortal, and despair. Taste of my eyes, and there will be no secrets between us." His voice dropped to the barest of whispers. "Perhaps I will drink your mind like others drink blood and leave nothing behind but your mindless husk." I stared into the darkness that was his eyes and felt myself fall forward, impossibly forward, and down, down into a blackness that was pure and total and had never known light."

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2005 Spanish Cover	2005 Circus Of The Damned and The Lunatic Cafe Russian	Chezlovokian 2007	Circus Of The Damned Turkish
Circus Of The Damned Polish