Burnt Offerings (Hamilton novel): Difference between revisions

Burnt Offerings
	1998 US cover
Author	Laurell K. Hamilton
Cover artist	Lee MacLeod (Ace edition)
Language	English
Series	Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
Genre	Horror, Mystery, Erotic novel
Publisher	Ace Books (Ace edition)
Publication date	1998 (Ace edition)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	392 pp (Ace edition)
ISBN	0-441-00524-1 (Ace edition)
OCLC	38900055
Preceded by	The Killing Dance
Followed by	Blue Moon

Browse history interactively

← Previous edit

Content deleted Content added

VisualWikitext

Inline

Latest revision as of 18:38, 2 August 2024

Burnt Offerings is the seventh in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of horror/mystery/erotica novels by Laurell K. Hamilton.

Plot

Anita, already burdened by her responsibilities to the vampires in her life—primarily Jean-Claude, the Master of the City, and Richard Zeeman, her werewolf lover—struggles with the growing tension among them. Jean-Claude is determined to leverage the focus on these murders to expand his influence in St. Louis, while Richard fears for Anita's safety and the repercussions of their connections to the occult.

As the investigation heats up, they gather intel from a range of supernatural allies, including the werewolves—exemplified by Malcolm, Asher, and Gregory. Meanwhile, ancient and powerful forces, exemplified by the enigmatic Padma and his followers, begin to emerge as key suspects.

Anita faces pressure on multiple fronts as the murders escalate, claiming several lives connected to the supernatural community. Keeping her relationships intact, she enlists the aid of creature-friendly police officers, including Larry Kirkland, who struggles with his own biases against vampires, and Veronica "Ronnie" Sims, who provides technological support.

The investigation leads Anita, Dolph, Zerbrowski, and their team to a series of hidden locations—abandoned buildings that serve as the hideouts for those performing the ritualistic murders. They discover that the burnt offerings are linked to an ancient vampire sect that seeks to awaken an ancient power tied to fire and sacrifice. Balthazar, an older vampire with deep ties to this eldritch sect, becomes a critical source of information, albeit an elusive one.

Meanwhile, personal tensions rise as Anita's romantic connections face strain. Richard’s aggressive stance against Jean-Claude leads to a violent confrontation, testing Anita’s ability to mediate between them. The situation worsens when Jean-Claude is framed for one of the murders, pushing Anita into a frantic race against time to clear his name.

With tensions boiling over and supernatural forces beginning to take sides, Anita rallies her allies, including Nathaniel Graison, Damian, and Jason Schuyler, to confront the true puppeteers behind the cult. They discover that the cult is led by the twisted Traveler, who seeks not only ritual sacrifices but also personal vendettas against the existing supernatural order, particularly targeting Jean-Claude and Richard.

The contagious as they prepare for an explosive encounter at a remnant of an ancient temple. Raina and Zane, powerful associates of the Traveler, disrupt their plans to rescue Jean-Claude, leading to epic supernatural skirmishes where alliances are tested. The struggle forces Anita to confront her inner darkness as she taps into her necromantic powers.

During the chaotic confrontation, sacrificial fires rage out of control, and the very fabric of reality feels threatened. With the help of unexpected unity among her allies, Anita manages to disrupt the ritual just in time, leading to a powerful confrontation against the Traveler and his minions.

After a hard-fought battle with significant losses, Anita ultimately emerges victorious but not unscathed. The truth about the cult’s reach throughout the city emerges, revealing hidden complicity among certain supernatural factions. Jean-Claude's name is cleared, but the consequences of these events leave a lingering shadow over their relationships, pushing Anita to question her place in the world.

In the aftermath, Anita faces the reality of her relationships, weighing the pull of her supernatural duties against her feelings for Richard and Jean-Claude. The story ends with a reflective moment where she realizes she can’t protect everyone and begins to embrace her duality as a necromancer and vampire hunter, hinting at the complexities of the supernatural world that lay ahead.

Characters

Major characters

Burnt Offerings features the following major characters.

Anita Blake: Anita becomes even more deeply enmeshed in the supernatural world, as she accepts the role of Nimir-Ra of the St. Louis pard and becomes deeper enmeshed in her roles as Jean-Claude's human servant and the lupa of the Thronos Rokke clan of werewolves. Meanwhile, her romantic life grows more complicated as she and Richard enchange^{[check spelling]} power and continue to argue over their relationship. Finally, Anita develops or explores three new powers - her control over the vampires she has raised (Damian and Willie), her ability to cause harm from a distance with a slashing attack similar to some vampires, and her ability to call Raina's munin to heal or harm.
Jean-Claude: Burnt Offerings continues an ongoing plotline as Jean-Claude struggles to assert control over his newly acquired territory and to assert independence in the larger vampire world. Meanwhile, Jean-Claude maneuvers Anita into admitting their romantic relationship publicly, and begins a reconciliation with Asher.
Richard: Richard continues his downward spiral after Anita's rejection in the previous novel, The Killing Dance. Anita learns that Richard is unable to accept his werewolf nature, making him vulnerable to challenge and interfering with his ability to lead and protect the pack. Unable to repair Richard, Anita attempts to contain the damage by preventing anyone from challenging Richard, and by defending the pack herself.

Other characters

Recurring characters in Burnt Offerings include:

Anita's friends and coworkers Larry and Ronnie.
Police officers Dolph, Zerbrowski, Clive Perry, and Tammy Reynolds. Burnt Offerings shows Dolph's mistrust of Anita increasing as she continues to date Jean-Claude, and introduces Tammy, RPIT's first witch officer;
Werewolves Irving, Jason, Jamil, Stephen, Sylvie and Teddy;
Wereleopards Cherry, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Vivian, and Zane;
Wererats Lillian and Rafael;
Vampires Asher (Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter), Damian, Liv, and Willie; and
Jean-Claude's human flunky Ernie.

Non-recurring characters include:

Gwen: Sylvie Barker's girlfriend, a psychiatrist and a powerful werewolf, with long wavy blond hair and a dainty, "china doll" appearance.
Hannah: One of Jean-Claude's vampires. Hannah is also dating Willie McCoy.
Captain Pete McKinnon: A fire captain who Dolph refers to Anita for help with a series of pyrokinetic arson crimes.
Vampire Council members The Traveler and The Master of Beasts.
Vampire Council retainers Balthasar, Gideon, and Captain Thomas Carswell.
Non-dominant werewolves Kevin and Lorraine, who Anita forces to protect Stephen and Nathaniel along with non-recurring character Teddy

References

External links

Burnt Offerings title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+{{short description|1998 novel by Laurell K. Hamilton}}
-{{multiple issues|
-{{fanpov|date=July 2013}}
+{{multiple issues|{{fanpov|date=July 2013}}
 {{overly detailed|date=July 2013}}
-{{unreferenced|date=July 2013}}
+{{Inline|date=June 2023}}}}
-}}
 {{infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
 | name         = Burnt Offerings
@@ Line 27: / Line 26: @@
 | followed_by  = [[Blue Moon (Hamilton novel)|Blue Moon]]
 }}
-<!-- please note that only "Name", Author", "Publisher" and "Release date" are mandatory, "Genre" although technically optionally is really strongly recommended. Each of the other field can be
-input as blanks and input can be marked with wiki links
-(e.g. [[Author name]] -->
 '''''Burnt Offerings''''' is the seventh in the [[Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter (series)|Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter]] series of horror/mystery/erotica novels by [[Laurell K. Hamilton]].
-==Plot introduction==
+==Plot==
+Anita, already burdened by her responsibilities to the vampires in her life—primarily Jean-Claude, the Master of the City, and Richard Zeeman, her werewolf lover—struggles with the growing tension among them. Jean-Claude is determined to leverage the focus on these murders to expand his influence in St. Louis, while Richard fears for Anita's safety and the repercussions of their connections to the occult.
-<!--This should give some idea of the type of novel this article is about, the setting,
-the period and its place in literature. It should '''not''' give information that would
-be though of as ''spoilers''.-->
-''Burnt Offerings'' continues the adventures of [[Anita Blake]], as she attempts to solve a series of arsons and other crimes, and deal with a threat to her lover, the [[Vampires|vampire]] [[Undead characters of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Jean-Claude|Jean-Claude]], as he fends off a political challenge from the [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter|Vampire Council]].  As with the other later novels in the series, ''Burnt Offerings'' blends elements of [[supernatural fiction|supernatural]], [[police procedural]], and [[Erotic literature|erotic]] fiction.
+As the investigation heats up, they gather intel from a range of supernatural allies, including the werewolves—exemplified by Malcolm, Asher, and Gregory. Meanwhile, ancient and powerful forces, exemplified by the enigmatic Padma and his followers, begin to emerge as key suspects.
-==Explanation of the title==
-As with previous novels, "Burnt Offerings" refers to a location within the novel itself.  In this case, "Burnt Offerings" is a vampire-themed [[theme restaurant]] where some of the events of the novel take place.  (The fictional restaurant is itself named after the real-world 1976 haunted house movie, ''[[Burnt Offerings (film)|Burnt Offerings]]''.)
+Anita faces pressure on multiple fronts as the murders escalate, claiming several lives connected to the supernatural community. Keeping her relationships intact, she enlists the aid of creature-friendly police officers, including Larry Kirkland, who struggles with his own biases against vampires, and Veronica "Ronnie" Sims, who provides technological support.
-==Plot summary==
+The investigation leads Anita, Dolph, Zerbrowski, and their team to a series of hidden locations—abandoned buildings that serve as the hideouts for those performing the ritualistic murders. They discover that the burnt offerings are linked to an ancient vampire sect that seeks to awaken an ancient power tied to fire and sacrifice. Balthazar, an older vampire with deep ties to this eldritch sect, becomes a critical source of information, albeit an elusive one.
-As in the previous novels, ''Burnt Offerings'' requires Anita to balance her romantic life with her roles as supernatural police consultant, vampire executioner, zombie animator, human servant and lover to the vampire [[Vampires (Anita Blake mythology)#Vampire society|Master of the City]] and [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Lupa|lupa]] to the local werewolf pack.  In this case, Anita is quickly confronted with several problems that ultimately prove to be interrelated:
-* Fire Captain '''Pete McKinnon''' wants Anita's help with a series of arson incidents that he believes to be the work of a [[Humans (Anita Blake mythology)#pyrokinetics|pyrokinetic]].
-* The local [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Wereleopards|wereleopard]] pard needs leadership and protection after Anita killed its "alpha," [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Gabriel|Gabriel]] in the previous novel, [[The Killing Dance (novel)|''The Killing Dance'']].
-* The [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Thronos Rokke|Thronos Rokke]] pack of werewolves needs clear succession and protection, particularly while [[Richard Zeeman|Richard]] is out of town studying for his master's degree.
-* A vampire has been set on fire at the vampire owned and themed restaurant, "[[Burnt Offerings (novel)#Explanation of the title|Burnt Offerings]]."  The woman who did so claims that the vampire tried to bite her against her will, and alleges self-defense.  This attack later proves to be the first in a series of attacks on vampires and vampire businesses.
-* Most threatening, the [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter|Vampire Council]] has sent representatives to Jean-Claude's territory in an attempt to investigate and possibly destroy Jean-Claude.  The Council is threatened by Jean-Claude's ability to destroy one of its most powerful members, [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Mr Oliver|The Earthmover]], and by Jean-Claude's refusal to take The Earthmover's place on the Council himself.  (Jean-Claude will not do so because he is not strong enough to hold the position against challengers; but the Council, based in Europe, fears that Jean-Claude is setting up a rival council in the United States).  The Council has sent representatives of four of its six remaining members, as follows:
-** Council member [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#The Traveler|The Traveler]] has arrived personally, or at least in spirit (one of his powers is the ability to possess other vampires, and the location of his actual body is never revealed).  The Traveler is accompanied by '''Balthasar''', his [[Vampires (Anita Blake mythology)#human servant|human servant]], and has also recruited one of Jean-Claude's vampires, [[Undead characters of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Liv|Liv]], to leave Jean-Claude's service and swear fealty to the Traveler.
-** Council member the [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Padma|Master of Beasts]] has arrived personally, accompanied by his son, '''Fernando''' and the other members of his [[Vampires (Anita Blake mythology)#triumvirate|triumvirate]], '''Gideon''' and '''Captain Thomas Carswell.'''
-** [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Belle Morte|Belle Morte]] does not come personally, but is represented by [[Asher (Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter)|Asher]], Jean-Claude's former lover and current mortal enemy.
-** [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Morte D'Amour|Morte d'Amour]] is represented by the vampires [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Yvette|Yvette]] and [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Warrick|Warrick]].
+Meanwhile, personal tensions rise as Anita's romantic connections face strain. Richard’s aggressive stance against Jean-Claude leads to a violent confrontation, testing Anita’s ability to mediate between them. The situation worsens when Jean-Claude is framed for one of the murders, pushing Anita into a frantic race against time to clear his name.
-Anita is forced to put the mysteries aside as she participates in a series of confrontations between Jean-Claude's followers and the council.  Ultimately, Anita's combination of loyalty, ruthlessness, and naiveté allows her to triumph over each of the delegations of vampires.
+With tensions boiling over and supernatural forces beginning to take sides, Anita rallies her allies, including Nathaniel Graison, Damian, and Jason Schuyler, to confront the true puppeteers behind the cult. They discover that the cult is led by the twisted Traveler, who seeks not only ritual sacrifices but also personal vendettas against the existing supernatural order, particularly targeting Jean-Claude and Richard.
-* The Master of Beasts and Fernando attempt to seize control of as many of the city's lycanthropes as possible, but are ultimately stopped by Anita, [[Richard Zeeman|Richard]] and [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Rafael|Rafael]].  Anita assumes control of the leopard pard and fully assumes her role as [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Lupa|lupa]], rescuing all of the local shapeshifters with Richard and Jean-Claude's help, but not before the Master of Beasts, Fernando, and Liv torture Rafael and Fernando and Liv torture and rape Sylvie and [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Vivian|Vivian]].
-* Anita shares Jean-Claude's love for Asher, notwithstanding Asher's scars and his hatred of them both.  Ultimately, their love wins Asher over, and he decides to leave Belle Morte's service and remain in St. Louis with Anita and Jean-Claude.
-* Anita offers friendship to the Traveler, and challenges him to be a worthy ruler when she discovers that his power is causing local vampires to become feral.  Intrigued, he accepts.
-* As she and Richard confront the Master of Beasts a second time, the Master lets Anita get too close.  Anita draws on the power of [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Raina Wallis|Raina]]'s [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Munin|munin]], using Raina's powers to threaten harm rather than healing.  With the Master's heart in her metaphysical grip, Anita threatens to kill him unless the Master leaves St. Louis and turns over Liv and Fernando to suffer the punishment for raping a member of Anita's werewolf pack.  The Master is loath to give up his son, but ultimately agrees, and Anita turns Liv and Fernando over to Sylvie and the pack, winning their loyalty as their [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Lupa|lupa]].
-* Yvette then reveals her plan, solving the remaining mysteries.  Like [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Mr Oliver|Mister Oliver]] before him, Yvette's master, [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Morte D'Amour|Morte d'Amour]], fears the US experiment with vampire legalization and wishes to sabotage it.  Yvette, together with '''Harry''', the owner of [[Burnt Offerings (novel)#Explanation of the title|Burnt Offerings]], has been provoking [[Humans (Anita Blake mythology)#Anti-vampire groups|Humans First]] to attack vampires and vampire businesses, and plans for Asher to kill Jean-Claude, seize control of the city's vampires, and provoke them into a murderous rampage.  Asher, won over by Jean-Claude and Anita, refuses.  Yvette then reveals her back-up plan—at her instructions, [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Warrick|Warrick]], a [[Vampires (Anita Blake mythology)#General master level powers|pyrokinetic]], has been setting the arson fires, and will burn down a stadium full of people.  Warrick, a former [[crusade]]r, announces that he has rediscovered his faith in God and refuses to assist Yvette.  Yvette then announces that she personally will go on a rampage, but is stopped by Warrick, who uses his powers to burn both Yvette and himself to ash.
+The contagious as they prepare for an explosive encounter at a remnant of an ancient temple. Raina and Zane, powerful associates of the Traveler, disrupt their plans to rescue Jean-Claude, leading to epic supernatural skirmishes where alliances are tested. The struggle forces Anita to confront her inner darkness as she taps into her necromantic powers.
-==Characters in ''Burnt Offerings''==
+During the chaotic confrontation, sacrificial fires rage out of control, and the very fabric of reality feels threatened. With the help of unexpected unity among her allies, Anita manages to disrupt the ritual just in time, leading to a powerful confrontation against the Traveler and his minions.
+After a hard-fought battle with significant losses, Anita ultimately emerges victorious but not unscathed. The truth about the cult’s reach throughout the city emerges, revealing hidden complicity among certain supernatural factions. Jean-Claude's name is cleared, but the consequences of these events leave a lingering shadow over their relationships, pushing Anita to question her place in the world.
+In the aftermath, Anita faces the reality of her relationships, weighing the pull of her supernatural duties against her feelings for Richard and Jean-Claude. The story ends with a reflective moment where she realizes she can’t protect everyone and begins to embrace her duality as a necromancer and vampire hunter, hinting at the complexities of the supernatural world that lay ahead.
+==Characters==
 ===Major characters===
 ''Burnt Offerings'' features the following major characters.
-* [[Anita Blake]]: Anita becomes even more deeply enmeshed in the supernatural world, as she accepts the role of [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Nimir-Ra and Nimir-Raj|Nimir-Ra]] of the St. Louis [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Pard|pard]] and becomes deeper enmeshed in her roles as Jean-Claude's human servant and the [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Lupa|lupa]] of the [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Thronos Rokke|Thronos Rokke]] clan of werewolves.  Meanwhile, her romantic life grows more complicated as she and Richard enchange power and continue to argue over their relationship.  Finally, Anita develops or explores three new powers - her control over the vampires she has raised ([[Undead characters of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Damian|Damian]] and [[Undead characters of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Willie McCoy|Willie]]), her ability to cause harm from a distance with a slashing attack similar to some vampires, and her ability to call [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Raina Wallis|Raina's]] munin to heal or harm.
+* [[Anita Blake]]: Anita becomes even more deeply enmeshed in the supernatural world, as she accepts the role of [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Nimir-Ra and Nimir-Raj|Nimir-Ra]] of the St. Louis [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Pard|pard]] and becomes deeper enmeshed in her roles as Jean-Claude's human servant and the [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Lupa|lupa]] of the [[Shapeshifters (Anita Blake mythology)#Thronos Rokke|Thronos Rokke]] clan of werewolves.  Meanwhile, her romantic life grows more complicated as she and Richard enchange{{typo help inline|reason=similar to exchange|date=November 2022}} power and continue to argue over their relationship.  Finally, Anita develops or explores three new powers - her control over the vampires she has raised ([[Undead characters of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Damian|Damian]] and [[Undead characters of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Willie McCoy|Willie]]), her ability to cause harm from a distance with a slashing attack similar to some vampires, and her ability to call [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Raina Wallis|Raina's]] munin to heal or harm.
 * [[Jean-Claude]]: ''Burnt Offerings'' continues an ongoing plotline as Jean-Claude struggles to assert control over his newly acquired territory and to assert independence in the larger vampire world.  Meanwhile, Jean-Claude maneuvers Anita into admitting their romantic relationship publicly, and begins a reconciliation with [[Asher (Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter)|Asher]].
 * [[Richard Zeeman|Richard]]:  Richard continues his downward spiral after Anita's rejection in the previous novel, [[The Killing Dance (novel)|''The Killing Dance'']].  Anita learns that Richard is unable to accept his werewolf nature, making him vulnerable to challenge and interfering with his ability to lead and protect the pack.  Unable to repair Richard, Anita attempts to contain the damage by preventing anyone from challenging Richard, and by defending the pack herself.
 ===Other characters===
 Recurring characters in ''Burnt Offerings'' include:
 * Anita's friends and coworkers [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Lawrence Kirkland|Larry]] and [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Veronica "Ronnie" Sims|Ronnie]].
 * Police officers [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Lt. Rudolph "Dolph" Storr|Dolph]], [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Sgt. Zerbrowski|Zerbrowski]], [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Clive Perry|Clive Perry]], and [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Tammy Reynolds|Tammy Reynolds]].  ''Burnt Offerings'' shows Dolph's mistrust of Anita increasing as she continues to date Jean-Claude, and introduces Tammy, RPIT's first witch officer;
@@ Line 83: / Line 69: @@
 Non-recurring characters include:
 * [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Gwen|Gwen]]:  Sylvie Barker's girlfriend, a psychiatrist and a powerful werewolf, with long wavy blond hair and a dainty, "china doll" appearance.
 * [[Undead characters of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Hannah|Hannah]]: One of Jean-Claude's vampires. Hannah is also dating Willie McCoy.
@@ Line 89: / Line 74: @@
 * Vampire Council members [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#The Traveler|The Traveler]] and [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Padma|The Master of Beasts]].
 * Vampire Council retainers Balthasar, [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Gideon|Gideon]], and Captain Thomas Carswell.
-* Non-dominant werewolves '''Kevin''' and '''Lorraine''', who Anita forces to protect Stephen and Nathaniel along with non-recurring character Teddy.
+* Non-dominant werewolves '''Kevin''' and '''Lorraine''', who Anita forces to protect Stephen and Nathaniel along with non-recurring character Teddy
-The death toll in ''Burnt Offerings'' includes:
-* An unnamed assassin from Humans First, shot by [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Anita Blake|Anita]] and [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Veronica "Ronnie" Sims|Ronnie]];
-* [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Yvette|Yvette]] and [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Warrick|Warrick]], burned to death by Warrick's pyrokinesis;
-* [[List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters#Fernando|Fernando]] and [[Undead characters of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Liv|Liv]], presumably tortured to death by Sylvie;
-* '''Harry''', a centuries-old vampire with brown hair, owner of "Burnt Offerings," a vampire-themed theme restaurant.  Harry was part of [[The Vampire Council of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter#Morte D'Amour|Morte d'Amour's]] bloodline, and cooperated with Yvette in her scheme to force a vampire-human war.  Presumably, he was killed by Jean-Claude's vampires after the events of the novel.
-==Major themes==
-{{Empty section|date=July 2010}}
-==Release details==
+==References==
+{{Reflist}}
-<!--year, country, publisher ISBN 1-234-56789-0 {{Please check ISBN|reason=Check digit (0) does not correspond to calculated figure.}}, Pub date DD Month Year, binding-->
-<!--major publication history to be included here, not everything if too extensive-->
-<!--example-->
-<!--*1999, USA, C.S. Black & sons ISBN 8768768760 {{Please check ISBN|reason=Check digit (0) does not correspond to calculated figure.}}{{Please check ISBN|reason=does not match hyphenation rules and is probably invalid}}, Pub date 1 April 1999, Hardback -->
+==External links==
-<!-- Need remaining info from Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate -->
+* {{ISFDB title}}
 {{Anita Blake}}

v t e The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton
Novels	Guilty Pleasures (1993) The Laughing Corpse (1994) Circus of the Damned (1995) The Lunatic Cafe (1996) Bloody Bones (1996) The Killing Dance (1997) Burnt Offerings (1998) Blue Moon (1998) Obsidian Butterfly (2000) Narcissus in Chains (2001) Cerulean Sins (2003) Incubus Dreams (2004) Micah (2006) Danse Macabre (2006) The Harlequin (2007) Blood Noir (2008) Skin Trade (2009) Flirt (2010) Bullet (2010) Hit List (2011) Kiss the Dead (2012) Affliction (2013) Jason (2014) Dead Ice (2015) Crimson Death (2016) Serpentine (2018) Sucker Punch (2020) Rafael (2021) Smolder (2023)
Tie-ins	Strange Candy (2006) The First Death (2008) Beauty (2012) Dancing (2013) Shutdown (2013) Wounded (2016)
Characters	Anita Blake Jean-Claude Richard Asher The Vampire Council Branson-based vampires Other characters
Mythology	Mythos Shapeshifter