A Fistful of Charms ~ Kim Harrison

this is the fourth book in the Rachel Morgan series. Rachel is challenged for her position as Alpha of a werewolf pack, and somehow manages to win. Rachel is still trying to figure out how to get Jenks back into the garden after she insulted him last winter, when his wife, Matalina comes to beg Rachel to help Jenks find their son, Jax, who has disappeared with Rachel's ex-boyfriend. Rachel ends up traveling north to find Jax and Nick, and keep herself out of even more trouble.

The Circus of the Damned ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the third book in the Anita Blake series. In this book there is a series of murders committed by what appears to be a rouge master vampire and his troupe. While investigating these murders, Anita encounters Alejandro, one of the oldest vampires that Anita has ever encountered. We see a great deal more Were animals in this book, especially werewolves. This book is also the first appearance of Larry, Anita's new apprentice Vampire Hunter, and Animator. We also meet Richard for the first time in Circus of the Damned, a Junior High School science teacher that for some reason, spends his time with the monsters.

The Laughing Corpse ~ Laurall Hamilton

This is the second book in the Anita Blake series. In this book, Anita is avoiding Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire of the City (St. Louis) who really wants to see Anita. Anita has been marked with two of the marks of a human servant, servant to a master vampire that is, and she is not happy about it, and is not submitting to it. And now there are murders being committed, by something preternatural, and Anita has to figure out what it is, and how to kill it, without getting herself killed in the process.

Guilty Pleasures ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the first book in the Anita Blake series. I just reread this for about the third time, I love this series, it is definitely a sci/fi or fantasy because in these novels Vampires exist, as well as shape shifters or Were's (several species) and vampires are legal citizens in the US. In order to legally deal with criminal vampires the government issues death warrants and vampire hunters then hunt down and kill them, it is illegal to kill a vampire without a warrant. In this novel, we are just being introduced to the world of Anita Blake, we meet a few vampires, as well as Edward, a bounty hunter, and Rafael, the Rat King, he is the leader of the local group of wererats. I love these and reread them fairly often.

Bite Me if You Can ~ Lynsay Sands

This is the fifth book in the Argeneau series. Lucian, the oldest member, and the backbone of the Argeneau family, is in Kansas City hunting down Morgan, an Immortal who has gone rogue. As He gets closer to destroying Morgan, he finds Leigh, a local restaurant owner, who Morgan has initiated the change on, but has not yet completed the change. Lucian ends up taking Leigh back to Toronto to complete the change, and discovers along the way that she is his lifemate, something he had given up on centuries earlier.

Dark Celebration ~ Christine Feehan

This is the seventeenth novel in the Dark series. In this novel the goal is for all the Carpathians to get together and celebrate the Christmas season, but there are problems from the start. The women are determined to prepare the entire feast in 'the human manner' and there are several problems that arise from being unfamiliar with the methods, or simply that it has been so long since they actually did anything like we do. Added to this problem is that there seems to be attacks being made on the Carpathians. More than one of them encounters a vampire, and the vampires have new tricks up their sleeves too!

Even Vampires get the Blues ~ Katie MacAlister

This is the fourth book in the Dark Ones series. In this novel, Paen, a Dark One, has been contacted about fulfilling a contract that his father agreed to two hundred and fifty years earlier. He must find and return a statue to the demon the contract was with. In trying to fulfill this contract, Paen hires Samantha Cosse, a half-elf private detective, to aide him in the search. it is quickly discovered that Samantha is his Beloved, though not nearly as accepted. This is a pretty good story, with several twists and turns that really surprised me.

Sex, Lie and Vampires ~ Katie MacAlister

This is the third book in the Dark Ones series. In this novel, Nell, a Medieval history professor and charmer, has been hired to find Damien, a Dark One child, who has been abducted and is being held by a demon lord. Along the way, she meets Adrian, a dark one known as Adrian the Betrayer, as he is bound to a demon lord, and had turned Dark Ones over to him in the past.

Sex and the Single Vampire ~ Katie MacAlister

this is the second book in the Dark Ones series. Christian, who we met in Single Girls Guide to Vampires, is in London for a book signing, and visiting with Joy, Raphael and Roxy. While in London, he meets Allegra, Allie for short, a Summoner there on tour, visiting haunted places in town trying to document ghosts and summon them. Allegra agrees to help Christian find a friend of his who has disappeared, and they have a great adventure.

A Girl's Guide to Vampires ~ Katie MacAlister

This is the first in a series of vampire books by Katie MacAlister. In this book Joy and her friend Roxy visit the Czech Republic in a hunt for a writer who writes their favorite series.. about vampires. Along the way they meat new people, and discover that there has been a series of murders following the vampire fair that is in the area where they are going. They attempt to solve the crimes, and Joy falls in love at the same time.

A Bite to Remember ~ Lynsay Sands

This is the fifth book in the Argeneau series. In this novel Vincent, an actor, is having trouble with his productions, it appears as though someone is sabotaging them, forcing him to stop productions on several plays. Vincent hires a private detective who is used to dealing with vampires. Jackie Morrisey, who's name he got through Bastien, his cousin. Jackie has been dealing with vampires since she turned 18 and her father brought her into the detective agency. She has had some encounters with vampires that have left her very leery of them and unable to trust them.

Tall, Dark and Hungry ~ Lynsay Sands

This is the fourth book in the Argeneau series. In this story we follow the tale of Bastien Argeneau, as he is trying to help his brother Lucern, and his fiance Kate, prepare for their wedding, suddenly, Kate's cousin / best friend Terri is coming to town, and Kate and Lucern need to go out of town. Terri ends up staying at the family penthouse with Bastien while they try to make sure everything goes smoothly for the two people who are so important to them!

Single White Vampire ~ Lynsay Sand

This is the third in book in the Argeneau series. In this story, Lucern, a writer, who has been writing the stories of his siblings' romances and had them published as paranormal fiction, meets Kate, his new editor, who is determined that Lucern do at least one publicity event.

Love Bites ~ Lynsay Sands

This is the second book in the Argeneau series. This is the story of Etienne Argeneau, a video game programmer, and Rachel, a local coroner. Etienne ends up in Rachel's morgue, when she realizes that he appears to be healing... and all of a sudden a man bursts in, and tells her that Etienne is a vampire, and proceeds to attempt to cut his head of with an ax. Rachel steps into the way and is morally wounded by the ax, the man runs off. Etienne turns her to vampire to save her life, and then must teach her how to survive. While trying to protect her from the man who is trying to kill him.

A Quick Bite ~ Lynsay Sands

This is the first installment in the Argeneau series. This is about Lissianne, a vampire, but the twist is that vampires are not what we have always thought of them as, they are basically human, but need blood to survive, like hemophiliacs. The race originally started way back in Atlantis, when nanos were invented (tiny, tiny computers, that are introduced into the body intravenously, designed to repair the body, then self destruct) the problems is that the body is always sustaining damage. From the sun.. from aging.. from disease... so the nanos are constantly repairing the body, so you live much longer, and it is the nanos that require the blood, they use blood to reproduce and for fuel, so the more damage your body sustains, the more blood you need to drink.

Anyway, Lissianne has a phobia... she is hemophobic, this can be a major problem to someone who must drink blood to survive!! So her mother kidnaps a psychologist who specializes in phobias for Lissi's birthday to cure her of her phobia.

This was great, I can't wait to get to more in the series!!!

Danse Macabre ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the fourteenth book in the Anita Blake series. This book seems to be where we will work out a lot of emotional issues. In the very beginning, Anita believes she may be pregnant, and is unsure how to deal with how she is feeling about this possibility. We also see some of Richard's issues, a lot more of Anita's and even some of Asher's.

At the same time, they have a bunch of visiting Master's of the City, who have been invited to enjoy a traveling ballet group, made up entirely of vampires. And, of course, there are complications in dealing with all the visiting Masters.

Micah ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the thirteenth book in the Anita Blake series, it is a short story, at least much shorter than the average book in this series. In this book, Anita and Micah take a trip to Philadelphia for an Animating (raising a zombie) job for the FBI. The agent in charge of the case that Anita has been hired for is one that already knew Micah, and Anita now learns the story of how Micah became a wereleopard. Also in the story they learn that though Anita is not a Lycantrope, she is a carrier for four different kinds of lycantropy, which is totally unheard of! Great story, shows a bit more back ground and day to day life for Anita and her men.

Incubus Dreams ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the twelfth book in the Anita Blake series. We see a lot of progress in Anita's personal situation in this book, she realizes that she is not giving Nathanial what he needs, that in trying to make herself feel like she is not using him, while making him her Pomme de Sang, that in fact, she is making him feel used. She also manages to forge another Triumvirate, this one between her, Nathanial, and Damian, and in this one Anita is the Master.

Anita also moves to another level in her dealings with the Ardeur, and in the amount of power that her triumvirates wield. During all this, Anita is also trying to help the police solve a serial murder, committed by vampires.

Fear the Darkness ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

This is a short story that is part of the Dark Hunter series. It tells a small portion of Nick's tale, Nick was a friend to Ash, for a long time, until Nick's mother was killed by Daimons. Nick blamed Ash and called down Artemis, and when Artemis told him that he had to be dead to become a Dark Hunter, he killed himself. Now Nick is determined to use his immortality to get revenge against Ash for allowing his mother to die.

Cerulean Sins ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is the eleventh book in the Anita Blake series. In this book, the vampire at the head of Jean-Claude's line has sent a representative to visit with Jean-Claude, she arrives three months early and totally unexpected, and this causes many problems. We deal with the visiting vampires, as well as Richard's issues with himself and his beast, as well as a serial murderer loose in St. Louis. Anita is also learning to deal with and control the Ardeur, which is what makes Anita a form of Succubus, it is a need she gained when she and Jean-Claude married the marks of her being his human servant.