Flirt by Laurell K. Hamilton is the latest Anita Blake vampire hunter novel. In Flirt, Anita is petitioned as a necromancer to bring a prospective client's wife back to life. She must convince him why that wouldn't be good despite her own sympathies for the situation.

When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn't the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington's grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long.

You can read the excerpt from chapter one, here.

Laurell Kaye Hamilton is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two series that mix mystery, fantasy, magic, horror and romance. Her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels from Penguin/Putnam Books began with Guilty Pleasures (now a hugely successful graphic novel from Marvel - the first sexy paranormal comic ever) and continues with Skin Trade, number seventeen in the series. There are now more than 6 million copies of Anita in print worldwide, in 16 languages.