In contradiction to that Anita claims she'd agreed to date Jean-Claude five weeks ago, even if that happened well before Christmas. Unless Anitaverse has moved things around, that means the events of this book events happen about three months after the main events of the previous Anita Blake novel, The Lunatic Cafe. This is an interesting thing to read in books where the lead character and heroin is not lawful good but is actually somewhere between Neutral Good and Lawful Neutral.Bloody Bones begins on Saint Patrick's Day, which is traditionally held on 17 March. Only with all the dangers around Anita Larry is now being forced to face the fact that Anita is known as the executioner for more than just her kill rate. Larry is strong but is still learning and so she's brought him as basically the equivalent of a back-up power source and she can train him at the same time. Now normally Anita wouldn't be able to raise zombies this old but she's brought her trainee Larry.

Seraphina now royally outclasses Jean-Claude and they are lucky to leave alive except the missing boy is still missing. Seraphina, the local master was not too long ago considered to be a lesser master to Jean Claude but when they go to pay her a visit regarding a missing boy, they got out through political manipulation. The only problem is she's technically in another vampires territory and Jean-Claude has basically done the equivalent of a monarch/ruler flying into a hostile foreign country with no passport or visa and only one body guard. He flies to her with a familiar werewolf friend called Jason. She asks for help from her friendly neighbourhood Vampire Master Jean-Claude. Whilst assisting a young boy got kidnapped by vampires so Anita pulls out all stops to help try and save him so what does she do. Meanwhile there is a series of murders in the area that Anita's been called in to assist on. last time it escaped it killed almost a whole tribe some 300 years ago so it doesn't seem to discriminate much. What we learn later on is that Bouvier is actually a fae from the unseelie court cursed to remain on those lands to ensure an ancient evil called Rawhead and Bloody Bones, a fae monster who was created to hunt and kill humans but predominantly misbehaving children. Mr Bouvier is fighting to save the rightful land of his ancestors saying the hills in question where ancient cemeteries of his ancestors. Mr Stirling the millionaire wants to build a hotel in the hills. Anita has been paid a small fortune to fly outside of the city to raise dead at an old burial site to help sort out a land rights issue.

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