Anita had taken up residence at a facsimile of her old townhouse, in St. Louis, but it wasn't the same without her wolves, or her leopards. Oh, there were plenty of vampires and weres if you knew where to look, by they weren't really hers. But she could hardly leave town if she didn't want Raina to try and make a comeback in Richard's absence, so she stayed. She visited Circus of the Damned regularly, just in case Jean Claude or anyone else she knew should arrive--and so that the Master of the City would have some representative to welcome new vampires who happened into town.
She was in Jean Claude's office at Guilty Pleasures--St. Louis' own vampire strip club--when the stranger came knocking.