The "steamy" (Booklist) Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel that took Laurell K. Hamilton to a whole new level is now in paperback. Includes a bonus excerpt from the next Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel, Cerulean Sins, coming in January 2003.

"Richard is an alpha werewolf. It was his only serious flaw. We'd broken up after I'd seen him eat somebody." Happy Halloween! What better way to celebrate your favorite holiday than to dive into Blue Moon, a new installment of Laurell K. Hamilton's bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series? Anita's ex, high school teacher and sexy lycanthrope Richard, has been thrown into jail for attempted rape. And no matter what Anita's vampire stud of a boyfriend Jean-Claude thinks, she's got to get Richard out-before the moon turns blue.

There are a lot of monsters in Anita Blake's life. And some of them are human. One such individual is the man she calls Edward, a bounty hunter who specializes in the preternatural. He calls her to help him hunt down the greatest evil she has ever encountered. Something that kills and maims and vanishes into the night. Something Anita will have to face alone...