Blogflog - Smolder cover and cover copy

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Link: Smolder cover and cover copy
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's blog. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.



I’m so excited to share the beautiful cover and spoiler free cover copy of Smolder, the next Anita Blake novel with you!

Hints and one reveal that starts on page one, so I’m not giving anything away.

Vampire hunter Anita Blake is no stranger to killing monsters. It’s part of her job as a Preternatural US Marshal, after all. But even her experience isn’t enough to stop something that is bent on destroying everything—and everyone—she loves.

Anita Blake is engaged to Jean-Claude, the new vampire king of America. Humans think she’s gone over to the side of the monsters. The vampires fear that their new king has fallen under the spell of the most powerful necromancer in a thousand years.

In the midst of wedding preparations—including getting Edward, aka U.S Marshal Ted Forrester, fitted as best man—Anita gets a call that the local police need her expertise at a brutal murder scene linked to a nationwide slaughter of vampires and humans, dubbed the Sunshine Murders.

But there is more than just a murderer to catch: an ancient evil has arrived in St. Louis to challenge Jean-Claude for his crown, his life, Anita, and all they hold dear. Even with Jean-Claude’s new powers as king and Anita’s necromancy, it isn’t enough, however; they must embrace their triumvirate, or allow primeval darkness to spread across the country, possessing first the vampires and then the humans. Evil will triumph unless Jean-Claude and Anita can prove that love conquers all.

Available March 21, 2023!

Comments

[suzycat]

Do you think Anita will shag the ancient evil into submission and add it to her polydoodle?

That would be different and unusual.

[northernwalker]

I'm hoping the ancient evil will be asexual and decline. Just for lols.

[quillsshadow]

In all of that fail, the part that makes me saddest is 'Edward, aka U.S Marshal Ted Forrester' being the best man. He wasn't even my favourite character, and yet.

[thegrandhighmarysue]

I figured the 'lost love' from her first blurb would be Richard. He was the only one who has any semblance of independence from Anita. I'm guessing that ends in this book and she'll rope him in by force in the same way Nathaniel forced Damian into a tighter bond with him and Anita.