When the city's mopst powerful vampire comes to her for help, Anita Blake, vampire hunter, is faced with her greatest fear, a man capable of arousing in her a hunger strong enough to match his own.
As Burnt Offerings unfolds, Anita agrees to help track down a possible psychic firestarter. She's also policing the local werewolf pack, though she's split up with their alpha, Richard.
Two jobs pop up that make Anita Blake doubt her own capabilities: raising an entire graveyard of two-hundred-year-old corpses and finding out what happened to three Missouri teenagers - slaughtered in a way she has never seen before.