"Blood Trail" is the second in Tanya Huff's vampire series. Written in 1992 it anticipates and foreshadows Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake series. Huff's heroine is similar to Anita in that she is tough and self willed, but she is a bit more subdued, lacks any special powers and is handicapped by the retinosa pigmentosa which is slowly making her go blind. Nor are the settings similar, Toronto instead of St. Louis, and vampires are rare and not necessarily monstrous. While Huff's stories have an element of romance in them, they do not even approach the steamy vampire sexiness that Hamilton puts together with ease.