Ardeur: 14 Writers on the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series (Smart Pop series)

Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series is a literary sensation, thanks to its strong female hero, well-fleshed (both literally and literarily) characters and unabashed attitude toward sex. The world Hamilton has created is powerfully compelling and stunningly complex—and it gets deeper, richer and more perilous, with every book.

Straddling the series’ dominant themes of sex and power, Ardeur gives Anita fans a deeper look into the dynamics, both personal political, that have kept readers fascinated throughout the run of the series. Why is the ardeur the very best thing that could have happened to Anita, personally (aside from all the sex it requires her to have with hot men)? How is Anita’s alternate United States a logical legal extension of our own? And as the series continues, what other bargains might Anita have to make with herself and others in order to keep the people she loves safe from harm?

The collection includes essay introductions by Hamilton, giving context and extra insight into each essay’s subject.

• Cravings (Undead)
• Wounded (Kindle Single) (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)
• Serpentine (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Book 26)
• Dead Ice (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Book 24)
• Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
• Bite (Mageverse series)
• Affliction (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Book 22)
• Beauty: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Outtake (A Penguin Special from Berkley)
• Noir Fatale
• Crimson Death (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Book 25)