Narcissus in Chains
core novel 2001 Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Record
| First published | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.93 (61,815 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780425181683 |
| Internal chronology | 10 |
Synopsis
Narcissus in Chains is the tenth novel in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. Anita contracts multiple strains of lycanthropy in the course of her supernatural work, leaving her to grapple with an unfamiliar and unpredictable new hunger that begins to reshape both her body and her sense of self. As she struggles to understand and manage this development, she grows closer to the were-leopard Micah, whose steady presence draws her into a new kind of intimacy even as she works to formally end her strained relationship with Richard. The emerging hunger, later understood as the ardeur, forces Anita into closer contact with her circle of allies than ever before, drawing her deeper into the overlapping demands of St. Louis's vampire and shapeshifter communities as she tries to keep the new power from overwhelming her.
Where it sits
- Universe: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
- Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter core; position 10 of 30 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Notes
- From the series record (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter): The long-running main sequence, mixing full novels and a few shorter novellas, following vampire hunter and necromancer Anita Blake; still active as of the latest update.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: position 10 of 30: previous Obsidian Butterfly (2000) · next Cerulean Sins (2003)
Sources
- TL Branson: Anita Blake series in order
- https://www.abebooks.com/9780425181683/Narcissus-Chains-Hamilton-Laurell-K-0425181685/plp
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Blake
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