Written by Charlaine Harris. Illustrated by Lisa Desimini. First edition, May 2008. Berkley Publishing Group, an imprint of Penguin Group.
Welcome to Bon Temps, Louisiana! Sookie Stackhouse, smart, pretty, part-fairy, and telepathic (a demon rather than fairy gift), endeavors to recover from the double-whammy of Hurricane Katrina AND the explosion at last month's vampire summit but it's not to be. Times are changing for the vampires and werewolves of Bon Temps, her weretiger boyfriend Quinn went missing in the explosion, and she's about to be betrayed by someone she loves, once again.
This is #8 in the Southern Vampire Mysteries, a.k.a. True Blood Novels (based on the title of the 2008-2014 HBO series):
Charlaine Harris (1951 - ) was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, and now lives in Texas. She's been a prolific writer, best known for The Southern Vampire Mysteries, featuring Sookie Stackhouse, which was adapted as the HBO TV series True Blood, Aurora Teagarden, and Harper Connelly. She has won many awards for her work, including the Anthony Award and the Inkpot Award.
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