In this installment of the Anita Blake and her sexual partners saga, Micah's mother calls Anita with an emergency. Does anyone ever call anyone else besides Anita? Her phone must ring nonstop. I'd throw it in a river. Micha's father has been bitten by a zombie and is in the hospital dying from some nasty rotting funk. Anita takes some of her fellows and they zoom out to Colorado so that Micah can attempt to make amends before his father totally succumbs to his rot. Once there, they discover this mystery rot has happened to several others, and Anita is determined to track down the root with the help of Jean-Claude and Edward. One of the better books in the past 10 or so of the series, and I am always happy to see Edward again.