The sensational new novel from the New York Times bestselling author featuring her vampire-hunting heroine Anita Blake. When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love & she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn't the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington's grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. & not for long.