Sookie Stackhouse works as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte`s, a little bar in Bon Temps, a small town deep in Louisiana. She`s funny and pretty and well-mannered, but she doesn`t have that many close friends - mind you, that`s not so surprising when you consider how few people can appreciate her abilities as a mind-reader. It`s not a quality that has the guys beating down her door - well, unless they`re vampires or werewolves or the but they`re not just supernatural freaks, some of them are friends, even 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. He`s exactly the type of guy she`s been waiting all her life for. But Bill has a disability of his own: he`s fussy about his food, he doesn`t like suntans and he`s never around during the Yep, Bill`s a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble - of the murderous kind. TRUE BLOOD contains the full text of the first three Sookie Stackhouse novels: DEAD UNTIL DARK, LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS and CLUB DEAD.