Sookie Stackhouse, psychic and waitress, is helping Claude build his modeling portfolio by posing with him for pictures that would look fine on a romance novel cover. She hasn't heard from Alcide and knows that that part of her life is over. The Pelts have got the local priests asking Sookie to talk to them again about Debbie's disappearance. And she's committed to going to New Orleans soon to settle the estate of her cousin Hadley who was murdered six weeks ago. Mr. Cataliades is handling the probate. Bill offered to go with her but when the Vampire Queen's messenger is killed trying to deliver a message to Sookie things take a turn toward the dangerous and that doesn't leave much time for a new romantic attachment with Quinn the were-tiger. Once again we're tossed into a maelstrom of vampire politics, Were revenge, and general mayhem.

(Source: Ace Hardcover)