Hi All -

I was in desperate need for books the other night and made a hike up to the Borders in Ballwin since I sort of live out in the boonies and that's the nearest bookstore that's open past 6 pm. :p  (I like living out in Washington, MO - it means that I'm just that much further away from the taint that is LKH.  *laugh*) I was hoping to find the latest Sherrilyn Kenyon and JD Robb (Nora Roberts) books.  No Sherry, but got the latest JD Robb hardback. 

So, as I was browsing, looking for more than one book to buy, I stumbled on Kelley Armstrong - she's got a necromancer character named Jaime Vegas (real name is Jaime O'Casey) who's like what Anita should have been.  She's older than Anita, in the beginning stages of a relationship with a werewolf pack Alpha named Jeremy and is a stable personality!  Not the drahma queen bitch that Anita likes to be. 

There are mentions of vampires in the book I picked up - No Humans Involved - but they don't factor into this story.  They seem to be more "rare" and "elusive."  Jaime is supposed to be filming one of those Hollywood seance specials leading up to the raising of Marilyn Monroe's ghost. except it doesn't go that way and she seems to be the only real necromancer/medium of the group and gets involved instead with trying to solve a series of child murders, because the child ghosts are trapped in the garden of the house that they've been filming at. 

There are hints and teases of what might happen between Jaime and Jeremy if/when they finally make it into the sack together.  When they finally do - it's not until like pg 270 and then, it's just a small bit and very well written, unlike the gross-outs that LKH seems to delight in w/ Anita/Merry. 

If you're looking for a good read, I give this book a thumbs up.  I'm going to have to track down her other books now because I'm curious about the folks back in New York that obviously have more of a role in the previous books.  :)