Micah

Book 13 of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series

Phone calls at half past dawn are never a good omen for Anita Blake - and this one proves no exception. Larry Kirkland, her Animator's Inc. coworker, has a pregnant wife in early labor and Anita needs to cover for him on an assignment. The deceased is a federal witness who died in FBI protective custody before he could testify; a judge has ruled the witness can be raised as a zombie, and his testimony taken posthumously.

For anyone else, this would be a piece of cake. But Anita is afraid to fly - and the graveyard is in Philadelphia. And then theirs the nasty little problem of being apart from her lovers for so long, forcing her to feed her ardeur - the lust hunger that still drives her - with some hapless stranger.

Fortunately, her changeling lover, Micah is happy to come to her aid, ofering support on the pane - and in the bedroom - as she copes with the nitty-gritty of this assignment. However, what starts off as a routine task in that Philly graveyard becomes anything but as Anita faces down old grudges and even older advesaries, one of whom has developed powers similar to Anita's and is not above either sabatage or subterfuge. Things turn rapidly from bad to worse whe she is forced to confront the unsettling unholy passion Micah stirs in her - even on the job - while she brings forthe the most treacherous and terrifying zombie of her career.