Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her job as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte`s, a small-town bar in small-town Bon Temps, deep in Louisiana. She`s funny and pretty and, thanks to her grandmother, she`s very well-mannered - but since not many people truly appreciate her ability to read their minds, the guys haven`t exactly been beating down her And then along came Bill, tall, dark and handsome - and Sookie couldn`t `hear` a word he was thinking. He was exactly the type of guy she`d been waiting all her life for. Of course, Bill had a disability of his own: fussy about his food, not into suntans, bit of a night person: yep, Bill was a vampire. But at least now Sookie nows there *are* guys she can date who won`t worry about her catching them thinking about other And that`s going to make Sookie`s life really interesting!