Biography:

Anita was born in the American Midwest. Her heritage is Anglo/Germanic and Mexican. Her mother died in a car accident when Anita was a child. Her father later remarried and through this relationship Anita has a half-brother and sister. In her early teens, Anita accidently raised her recently deceased dog from the dead. Anita's father sent Anita to her maternal grandmother to learn a modicum of control over her abilities. Grandmother Flores soon realized that Anita was a necromancer as opposed to a regular animator. After teaching Anita what she needed to know, her grandmother encouraged Anita's Roman Catholic faith and voluntarily cut herself and her voodoo practices off from her granddaughter. Her motivation for doing so was a deep seated belief that to practice voodoo and be a necromancer would eventually turn a person to evil. Anita attended college and was briefly engaged during that time. After graduating with a degree in preternatural biology, Anita was recruited by Bert Vaughn. Vaughn owned a small company called Animators Inc., which was located in St. Louis and specialized in raising zombies for various legal and personal reasons. Because of Anita's talents and Bert's financial know-how, the company became a success very quickly. Anita also showed a talent for dealing with vampires and was trained to be a vampire slayer. When the Supreme Court decision, Addison v. Clark, declared vampires were considered human under the law, she was licensed as a vampire executioner. She is also put on retainer to the Regional Preternatural Investigation Team (RPIT) of the St. Louis P.D. Anita has few friends due to the fact that people tend to become casualties in her line of work. The humans she is closest to include Edward (a bounty hunter who specializes in the supernatural), Veronica "Ronnie" Simms (a P.I.), and Catherine Maison-Gillette (a lawyer). A case Anita is hired to investigate leads to her meeting Jean-Claude who eventually becomes Master of St. Louis. He also attempts to make Anita his willing human servant, going so far as to give her three of four metaphysical "marks". Anita resfuses him often at first, even dating Richard Zeeman, a local teacher and also a werewolf. Jean-Claude forces her to date both of them before she makes a choice. With each adventure Anita's powers as a necromancer increase as do her ties to St Louis's monsters. Eventually she forms the first of two triumvirutes of power which enhance her talents further. The first, with Jean-Claude and Richard, causes her to manifest traits common to both vampires and werewolves without actually becoming one. It also leads to the "marks" being restored after Anita had managed to get rid of them. Richard makes her his lupa (mate to the leader of a wolfpack) and she remains in the position despite their eventual break-up. She also assumes the title of Nimir-Ra (leader and protector) to the local were-leopard pard despite the fact she is human. This leads to a relationship with a man called Marcus, who Anita invited to town to take the burden of leading the leopards. Instead he became her lover. He helped her discover that she is somehow prevented from being fully infected with lycanthropy though she has often been bitten by various shifters and acts as a carrier for several different strains. Currently Anita is involved with protecting the vampires of St. Louis and herself from an old and powerful vampire called The Mother of Darkness.