

Sookie learns that her friend had recently attended a local sex party. This book opens with Sookie Stackhouse finding the dead body of Lafayette in the backseat of Andy Bellefleur's car, which had been left at Merlotte's the night before.

In Dallas Sookie Stackhouse has her first encounter with the anti-vampire organization " The Fellowship of the Sun", as well as meeting and learning of the existence of werewolves. Sookie agrees to help investigate the whereabouts of the missing vampire on one condition: any humans found to be involved must be turned over to human law enforcement rather than subjected to vampire justice.

In this second installment, the story follows the adventures of telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse of Bon Temps, Louisiana as she is employed by Dallas vampires to use her telepathy to help find their lost companion.
