The supernatural community in Bon Temps, Louisiana is reeling from two hard blows: the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit in the up-north city of Rhodes. Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed and she\"s yearning for things to get back to normal. But that\"s just not happening....

Sookie doesn\"t have that many relations, so she hated to lose one - but of all the people to go, she didn\"t expect it to be her cousin Hadley, a consort of New Orleans\" vampire queen - after all, Hadley was technically already dead....

Sookie can read minds. That\"s not exactly every man\"s idea of date bait - unless they\"re undead - vampires and the like can be tough to read. And that\"s just the kind of guy Sookie\"s been looking for. Maybe that\"s why, when she comes across a naked vampire on the way home from work, she doesn\"t just drive on by....

Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She\"s quiet, keeps to herself and doesn\"t get out much. She can read minds. And that doesn\"t make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill: he\"s tall, he\"s dark and he\"s handsome - and Sookie can\"t \"hear\" a word he\"s thinking....

If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven\"t seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana....

Now it\"s the turn of the weres and shifters to follow the lead of the undead and reveal their existence to the ordinary world. Sookie Stackhouse already knows about them, of course - her brother turns into a panther at the full moon, she\"s friend to the local Were pack and Sam, her boss at Merlotte\"s bar, is a shifter....

Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She\"s a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life - but things just seem to happen to her and her friends....

There\"s only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with - at least voluntarily - and that\"s Bill. But recently he\"s been a little distant - in another state distant. His sinister and sexy boss Eric has an idea where to find him and next thing Sookie knows she\"s off to Jackson, Mississippi, to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead....

Sookie would really like to take a while to get over being betrayed by Bill, her long-time vampire lover and get used to her new relationship with the sexy shapeshifter Quinn - but instead, she finds herself attending the long-planned vampire summit, the destination of choice for every undead power player around, as a sort-of human \"Geiger counter\"...

Sookie Stackhouse has one last adventure in store. Life has taken her from a waitress in Merlotte\"s Bar, Bon Temps, to part owner; from social outcast to the heart of her community; from a vampire\"s girlfriend to the wife of one of the most powerful vampires in the state. She has survived explosions, revolutions and attempts on her life....