Anita Blake

Anita Blake is the main character and narrator of this novel. She earns her living as an animator, someone who raises zombies, but she is a necromancer by birth, rumored to have control over all types of the undead. She also assists the police on supernatural cases. Anita is short, petite, and half-Mexican, with long, curly, black hair. She is ruthless and has the most legal vampire kills of any vampire killer in the United States, earning her the nickname the Executioner among the vampires. Anita is dating Jean-Claude, a vampire, and Richard, a werewolf.

Sabin and Dominic Dumare come to Anita for help with curing Sabin's degenerative disease. Someone hires an assassin to kill Anita which she learns from her friend Edward, an assassin. Anita kills the first assassin in her apartment, after which she stays the night with Richard and saves Stephen from Raina and...