Mercy Blade (Jane Yellowrock #3)
Author: Faith Hunter
Desc: Things are heating up in the Big Easy. Weres have announced their existence to the world and revived the bitter tensions that run between them and their old enemies: vampires. As a trusted employee of Leo Pellissier Blood Master of the City Jane finds herself caught in the cross fire. When Jane is attacked by a pack of marauding werewolves she is thankful for the help of a mysterious stranger named Girrard. He explains that he used to be Leo's 'Mercy Blade ' a sacred position charged with killing vampires who have gone insane. What Jane doesn't know is why this powerful assassin left New Orleans--or more troubling why he's now returned. It's definitely not to make Jane's life easier...