Nicholas receives an invitation to Gino Carlo's villa outside of town. Neither man trusts the other and each warily decides if cooperate is possible. Gino heads to the secret cartel meeting with the other drug lords. As negotiations break down and suspicions abound, an all out war breaks out within the meeting, and members are relentlessly killed. Meantime, Nicholas visits Carlo's mistress Simone to discover the secret of Gino's true nature. In the aftermath of the killings, Gino Carlos reflects on his rise to power and the mysterious man that made it possible. He decides to double back to the villa in an attempt to capture Bane.

As Father Gerardo reflects on a youth who grew up to become one of the most feared drug lords in Mexico, Anna and the town is drawn to the music floating through as further deaths are found and a message in blood is left. Bain shows that he is more than a simple hunter and a glimpse of his powers are revealed. Romance is beginning to grow between Anna and Nicholas as she nurses his injuries.

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Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.

When a powerful centuries-old vampire hits Anita Blake's town, a battle of the undead ensues.

Like Elizabeth Kostova's #1 "New York Times" bestseller "The Historian," this thriller is based on the premise of the narrator coming into possession of old documents that tell the "true" story of the greatest of vampire hunters.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton offers a sexy, suspenseful novel of human—and inhuman—passions, as vampire hunter Anita Blake must repay a favor to a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face... Edward is a hit man, specializing in monsters, vampires, shapeshifters, anything and everything. There are people like Anita who do it legal, but Edward doesn't sweat the legalities, or, hell, the ethics. He's an equal opportunity killer. Anita may be one of the few friends that Edward has, but it’s like being friends with a tame leopard. It may curl up on the foot of your bed and let you pet its head, but it can still eat your throat out... EXCLUSIVE TO THIS EDITION ONLY: A PREVIEW OF THE LATEST ANITA BLAKE, VAMPIRE HUNTER NOVEL, CRIMSON DEATH