title: 23 Hours: A Vengeful Vampire Tale
author:  David Wellington 
description: When vampire hunter Laura Caxton is locked up in a maximum-security prison, the cop-turned-con finds herself surrounded by murderers and death-row inmates with nothing to lose ...and time to kill. Laura's always been able to protect herself, but soon she learns that an even greater danger lurks in the prison. Justinia Malvern, the world's oldest vampire, has taken up residence and her power grows as she feeds her way through the inmate population. She knows how to pull Caxton's strings, and issues an ultimatum that Laura can't refuse. Now Laura has just 23 hours to fight her way through a gauntlet of vampires, cons and killers ...23 hours to make one last, desperate attempt at protecting the world from Justinia's evil.
zlib_text: **At Grave’s End**
  
  A Night Huntress Novel
  
   **Jeaniene Frost**
  
  ![](Images/image00161.jpeg)
  
  _To my husband,_  
   _for accepting without judging,_  
   _loving without conditions,_  
   _laughing instead of getting angry,_  
   _and thinking of others before yourself._  
   _I’m the lucky one._
  
   **Contents**
  
   **One**
  
  THE MAN SMILED AND I LET MY GAZE LINGER over…
  
   **Two**
  
  I WOKE UP ALONE IN OUR BED LATER. A SLEEPY…
  
   **Three**
  
  THE VAMPIRES DIDN’T TAKE LONG TO NOTICE Belinda. Maybe they…
  
   **Four**
  
  THE OTHER VAMPIRE GOT AWAY. DAVE BLAMED himself for not…
  
   **Five**
  
  MAX, MY FATHER, STOOD ABOUT THIRTY yards away between some…
  
   **Six**
  
  DON ARRIVED AT MY MOTHER’S WITH THE full team less…
  
   **Seven**
  
  MY HURT LASTED THE REST OF THE DAY. I stayed…
  
   **Eight**
  
  BONES ARRIVED AT TEN AFTER MIDNIGHT. I went outside to…
  
   **Nine**
  
  IN SPITE OF THE FEVERISH TRACKING OF DOMINO’S accounts to…
  
  **Ten**
  
  BONES, EVER PARANOID THAT ONE OF THESE guests could be…
  
   **Eleven**
  
  WE WERE ON THE FAR SIDE OF T