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.