Fantasy Author Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell Kaye Hamilton, aka: Laurell Kaye Klein and was born February 19, 1963 in Heber Springs, Arkansas. Laurell grew up in Sims, Indian with her grandmother Laura Gentry.
Her education includes degrees in English and biology from Marion College (now called Indiana Wesleyan University), a private Evangelical Christian liberal arts college in Marion, Indiana. She met Gary Hamilton, whom she married, there. They have one daughter together, Trinity.
Hamilton is involved with a number of animal charities, particularly supporting dog rescue efforts and wolf preservation.
Ms. Hamilton currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her daughter Trinity, and husband Jonathon Green whom she married on 2001.

Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is best known as the author of two series:

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series centers on Anita Blake, a professional zombie raiser (necromancer), vampire executioner and supernatural consultant for the police. The Anita Blake Series currently has 25 book to its credit.

Merry Gentry series centers on Meredith Gentry, Princess of the Unseelie court of Faerie, a private detective facing repeated assassination attempts. Hamilton's Merry Gentry books has 8 books in the series.

Both fantasy series follow their protagonists as they gain in power and deal with the dangerous “realities” of worlds in which creatures of legend live.

Ms. Hamilton also has a Marvel comic book series called Anita Blake Vampire Hunter. She has been involved with this series since 2011.

Crimson Death is Laurell K. Hamilton's new book.

The twenty-fifth adventure, of the Anita Blake vampire hunter series.
Anita has never seen Damian, her vampire servant, in such a state. The rising sun doesn’t usher in the peaceful death that he desperately needs. Instead, he’s being bombarded with violent nightmares and blood sweats.
And now, with Damian at his most vulnerable, Anita needs him the most. The vampire who created him, who subjected him to centuries of torture, might be losing control, allowing rogue vampires to run wild and break one of their kind’s few strict taboos.
Some say love is a great motivator, but hatred gets the job done, too. And when Anita joins forces with her friend Edward to stop the carnage, Damian will be at their side, even if it means traveling back to the land where all his nightmares spring from…a place that couldn’t be less welcoming to a vampire, an assassin, and a necromancer: Ireland.