Edward aka Ted Forrester

"If the eyes are the mirror to the soul, then Edward's in trouble because no one is home."

- Anita Blake, Obsidian Butterfly

Edward aka Ted Forrester (his legal identity) is also known as "Death" amongst the vampire community.  He is also known as The Undertaker.

As Theofore "Ted" Forrester he is a bounty hunter.

As Edward he is a hitman for vampires and other monsters.  He had previously hunter people but got bored with that and took on monsters for the challenge.

He is the perfect killer as he has no conscience.

Anita has no doubt that he could kill her with ease, even though she is the closest he has to a friend.

He is hired to kill the Master of the City and when Anita points out that she killed Nikolaos he offers her half the money.

He makes fleeting appearances in the books but we do get to see more of him in The Killing Dance when he arrives to back up Anita when he finds out there is a contract out on her life.  His reasoning for not taking the contract was that if he had taken it he only got to kill her...by refusing it and backing her up he can kill more.

Edward does not approve of Jean-Claude or Richard and does not believe that Anita should date any of the monsters.  Although Anita does believe that he likes Richard the better of the two.

Anita sees Edward as a mirror for her, "a warning of what I was becoming, or maybe a preview".

We later get to see a great deal of Edward when he calls in a favour on Anita.  At the end of The Killing Dance, Anita and Edward were faced with the choice of killing each other or Anita owing Edward a favour for her killing one of his backups.  He calls in the favour in Obsidian Butterfly.

Anita arrives in New Mexico to find Edward well settled in the community as Ted Forrester, a bounty hunter with a slight Texas accent - as opposed to Edward's non-existent accent.

Here she finds that Ted has proposed to a local widow with two kids when he was "caught up in the role of Ted".  He has been living in New Mexico for nearly four years and it well known in the community.

Now he calls Anita as a backup for him in solving the murders in the area that scare even him.  We later find that he has called her specifically because he knows that she will not hesitate to kill him if it is necessary to save him from becoming the latest victim.

More surprisingly than anything else though is the knowledge that Edward actually cares, in his own way, for Donna and her children.  A part of him wishes he could have the whole family set up with them.

"I'd thought that nothing could be scarier than Edward at his most cold. 

I was wrong.  Edward the family man was downright terrifying."

- Anita Blake, Obsidian Butterfly.