
A child of Anita's would have a significant risk of birth defects.
By contrast, Richard proposes monogamous marriage and expects that Anita will stop being a vampire executioner and federal marshal.
Micah and Nathaniel are willing to rearrange their lives to take on the primary parenting responsibilities. A vampire over the age of 100 is not a likely candidate. Richard and Nathaniel are the most likely candidates for fatherhood Micah had a lycanthrope vasectomy (silver clamps on the vas deferens) vampires in this world are capable of fathering a child, either via sperm created prior to their death for the newly dead, or if their body temperature is kept elevated for a long enough period of time to create new sperm, but the likelihood goes down with age. (Richard, Nathaniel, Jean-Claude, Asher, and Damian). This forces her to confront the difficult choice of whether to bring the child to term, as well as whether to inform the various potential fathers. First, Anita believes that she may be pregnant. Instead, Anita must juggle a series of problems arising from her own increasing power, Jean-Claude's vampire politics, and her own personal life, complicated in this case by Anita's apparent pregnancy. Unlike the previous thirteen novels, neither Anita's role as a Federal Marshal nor her job as a zombie animator plays any part in this novel. As with the past several books, Anita's ardeur complicates her efforts by forcing her to have frequent sex with her various lovers.ĭanse Macabre appears to take place a few weeks after the events of Incubus Dreams and almost immediately after the events of Micah, assuming that the series of serial killings that Anita's friend Ronnie refers to as occurring two weeks earlier are the killings Anita investigates in Incubus Dreams. Meanwhile, Anita deals with the arrival of several master vampires and their retainers for a vampire ballet sponsored by Jean-Claude, her own developing powers, and the increasing interest of the Mother of Darkness. Hamilton.Īnita's adventures continue, as a possible pregnancy threatens to force her to change her already unstable relationship with her several lovers. Danse Macabre is the fourteenth book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of horror/mystery/erotica novels by Laurell K.