The Killing Dance ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the sixth book in the Anita Blake series. In this book a visiting vampire has come to ask Anita for help, he has been on a diet of cold blood, and it has made his body rot, alive, they believe that Anita can help heal him. Problems keep adding up, Edward contacts Anita, it seems that someone tried to hire a hit man to kill her. And Richard is in a battle for command of the local werewolf pack, but there is more behind all this than meets the eye. Anita, Richard and Jean Claude form a triumvirate of power, and manage to do what needs to be done, but will the doing kill them?