Some of Anita's wereleopards friends are held hostage in a case of mistaken identity. When Anita goes to save them, she is injured. The claws from a wereleopard cut into her stomach, meaning on the next full moon she may become furry herself.
If that's not enough to worry about, a panwere named Chimera comes to take over the local lycanthrope groups. With all her friends in danger, and facing a life of the lunarly challenged, Anita has her hands full. With help from John-Claude, newcomer Micah, and hopefully Richard, Anita must face Chimera to save everyone from a fate worse than death.
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.