The first novel in Laurell K. Hamilton"s bestselling Anita Blake series, complete in one volume! Before there was a Buffy camping it up, before there was a Bella waiting for her savior - there was Anita Blake: a vampire-hunting heroine built to stand up to an undead threat centuries in the making. During the seventeen years since her debut, Anita"s tough, no-nonsese approach has won her millions of fans and racked up tens of millions of sales in bookstores around the world! In Guilty Pleasures, you"ll meet the iconic character behind Laurell K. Hamilton"s series of novels that pioneered the wildly popular genre of contemporary vampire drama. An expert adaptation of Hamilton"s New York Times bestselling novel ,Guilty Pleasures introduces you to Hamilton"s endlessly inventive world of St. Louis, the Midwestern city that is home to a world of undead - enjoying life, liberty and the pursuit of hapiness...and protected by law! Sleek, sexy, sarcastic and with a semi-automatic full of silver slugs, Anita Blake is sometimes the only thing standing between the human populace and their undead neighbors.