Publisher's Blurb:

"Laurell K. Hamilton, author of the New York Times bestseller A Kiss of Shadows, returns to the series that started it all. Narcissus in Chains, the tenth installment in the ever-popular Anita Blake series, finds everyone's favorite vampire hunter back on her home turf and delving into the heart of human—and non-human—darkness.
Men are men. Jean Claude and Richard are each something else entirely. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, torn between them, has been avoiding both vampire and werewolf for months. But when a kidnapper targets innocents she has sworn to protect, Anita turns to them for help, which will require harnessing both their powers—and their hungers..."

"Six months of celibacy have made Anita crave the two men in her life like never before. But merging their powers together will give this mortal woman a taste of immortal hunger that she''ll never be able to forget."

Publication Date:

Hardcover - January 2002 (Jove)
Paperback - September 2002 (Jove)

ISBN:

0-425-18168-5 (Jove HC), 0-515-13387-6 (Jove PB)

Covers and Cover Art:

The above cover was from the 2002 paperback republication of the book. The artist is: Craig White. Additional cover designs for North America and the UK can be seen here.

Synopsis:

Anita comes back from her self-imposed exile and discovery ready to try again with her two beaus only to find that there is more afoot in St. Louis than normal and it all wants to make her part of it. Someone is trying to disrupt many of the smaller and more established were groups and they aren't being subtle about how they do it either.

Anita has to turn to her lovers for help and it escalates from there.


For a more detailed plot summary of the book, see here

Primary Characters:

Anita Blake
Jean-Claude
Richard Zeeman

Recurring Characters:

Ronnie Sims
Jason Schulyer
Gregory Dietrich
Nathaniel Graison
Asher
Jamil
Shang-Da
Elizabeth
Zane
Cherry
Vivian
Sylvie Barker
Stephen Dietrich
Rafael
Dolph Storr
Zerbrowski
Detective Perry
Belle Morte (only mentioned previously)
Willie McCoy
Louie Fane
Raina (munin)
Damian
Ernie
Gretchen (Greta)
Dr. Lillian
Christine

New Characters:

Marco
Narcissus
Alex, Ulysses
Meng Die
Faust
Coronus
Chimera
Jacob
Micah Callahan
Merle
Caleb
Detective Jessica Arnet
Orlando King
Noah
Gina
Violet
Donovan Reece
Claudia
Igor
Paris
Joseph (mentioned as missing)
Gilbert
Bobby Lee
Cris
Bacchus
Zeke

Character Deaths:

Igor
Chris
Ulysses?
Chimera, Coronus, Boone, Orlando King
Marcos
Jacob

Important Revelations:

• These should be in point form
• We learn more about Julianna.

Explanation of the Title:

The title comes from the name of Narcissus's BDSM club.

"The Club was over the river on the Illinois side, along with most of the other questionable clubs. Vampire-run businesses got a grandfather clause to operate in St. Louis proper, but the rest of the human-run clubs - and lycanthropes still counted legally as human - had to go into Illinois to avoid pesky zoning problems." Page 18

Information on this Page has been Gathered from the Following Sources:

1. The novel: Narcissus in Chains

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