Chapters (135)
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Small-Town Wedding
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- Life in Bon Temps
- Dead Until Dark
- Timeline
- The Secret Dialogues of Bill and Eric
- Living Dead in Dallas
- Timeline
- The Secret Dialogues of Bill and Eric
- Club Dead
- Timeline
- The Secret Dialogues of Bill, Eric, and Pam
- Dead to the World
- Timeline
- The Secret Dialogues of Bill and Eric
- Dead as a Doornail
- Timeline
- The Secret Dialogues of Bill and Eric
- “One Word Answer”
- Timeline
- The Secret Dialogues of Bill and Eric
- Definitely Dead
- Timeline
- The Secret Dialogues of Bill and Eric
- All Together Dead
- Timeline
- The Secret Dialogues of Bill and Eric
- From Dead to Worse
- Timeline
- The Secret Dialogues of Bill and Eric
- Dead and Gone
- Timeline
- The Secret Dialogues of Bill and Eric
- Dead in the Family
- Timeline
- The Secret Dialogues of Bill and Eric
- Dead Reckoning
- Timeline
- The Secret Dialogues of Bill and Eric
- The Sookie Short Stories and Related Material
- RELATED STORIES
- Dahlia Lynley-Chivers
- Sean and Layla
- The Britlingens
- Vampires, Two-Natured, and Fairies, Oh My!Sookie Discusses the Creatures She’s Met
- THE VAMPIRES
- THE TWO-NATURED
- THE FAIRIES
- Sookie Stackhouse TriviaHow Much of a Sookie Fan Are You?
- Part One: The Easy Stuff
- Part Two: The Tough Stuff
- PART ONE ANSWERS
- PART TWO ANSWERS
- What’s Cookin’ in Bon Temps - A Selection of Down-Home Southern Recipes
- Breakfast
- BELLE RIVE BRUNCH EGGS
- EGGS BENEDICT
- FRENCH MARKET BEIGNETS
- Lunch
- BURGERS LAFAYETTE SAUCE
- COLD-WEATHER CHILI
- MERLOTTE’S CHICKEN STRIPS
- MITCHELL’S FAVORITE MEATLOAF
- Supper
- CALVIN’S CATFISH
- CRAWDAD’S COUNTRY-FRIED STEAK
- CROSSROADS JAMBALAYA
- SOOKIE’S CHICKEN CASSEROLE
- STACKHOUSE SMOTHERED PORK CHOPS
- Sides
- ANTOINE’S FRIED PICKLES
- BON TEMPS SWEET POTATO HARVEST
- GRAN’S EASY BAKED APPLES
- HOTSHOT HUSH PUPPIES
- JANNALYNN’S GOLDEN BISCUITS
- MARDI GRAS CORN SALAD
- MICHELE’S HOMEMADE BUTTERMILK RANCH DRESSING
- MICHELE’S PARMESAN GARLIC CROUTONS
- PINKIE’S FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
- SISTER’S MASHED POTATO CASSEROLE
- Desserts
- ADELE HALE STACKHOUSE’S BLUE-RIBBON CHOCOLATE CAKE
- AUNT PATTY’S SOUR CREAM CAKE WITH PRALINE FROSTING
- CAROLINE HOLLIDAY BELLEFLEUR’S CHOCOLATE CAKE
- DINER KEY LIME PIE
- LOUISIANA PRALINES
- PERDITA’S BREAD PUDDING WITH BOURBON SAUCE
- PORTIA’S SWEET POTATO PIE
- WICKED PEACH CAKE
- Drinks
- CLASSIC SOUTHERN SWEET TEA
- COUNTRY PORCH LEMONADE
- Inside True Blood - Alan Ball Answers Questions from the Fans
- From Mystery to Mayhem - The Works of Charlaine Harris
- FIRST STEPS
- THE AURORA TEAGARDEN AND LILY BARD SERIES
- THE SOOKIE STACKHOUSE SERIES
- TRUE BLOOD
- THE HARPER CONNELLY SERIES
- CHARLAINE AND HER FANS
- Recollections Around the Duckpond - The Fans of Charlaine Harris
- Charlaine Harris Answers Questions from Her Fans
- A Guide to the World of Sookie Stackhouse
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- ABOUT THE EDITOR
From: [email protected]
06:13 pm
Her name was Crystal. I will keep watch over Sookie.
Bill
Phone: Eric calling Bill.
ERIC: “Bill, get to Sookie’s immediately. Quinn has entered the area without permission, and you are to make certain he does not harass Sookie in any way. Keep him from her if you can.”
BILL: “I’m on my way to her house.”
Phone: Bill calling Eric.
BILL: “Eric, Sookie has been taken by fairies. I believe it was the ones called Lochlan and Neave. You must contact Niall, tell him to come to her house so we can track her. Now, Eric, NOW.”
ERIC: “I’ll call him and then come find you.”
Dead in the Family
Dead in the Family
Timeline
THE FIRST WEEK OF MARCH 2006. Grieving the death of her lover, Tray Dawson, Amelia decides to return to New Orleans and pick up her life there. Sookie, too, is struggling with the emotional and physical aftermath of the torture she endured at the hands of the fairies. Amelia questions Sookie about her feelings for Eric as they pack up the car, and Amelia offers to help Sookie find a way to free herself of the blood bond. Sookie accepts, and she and Amelia say an emotional good-bye. As Sookie thinks over the events and losses of the past few months, she acknowledges that there are people she wants dead for the pain they caused and wonders if her own life is worth the cost.
THE END OF THAT WEEK. Sookie wakes one morning to find her cousin Claude sitting on her front porch. He asks how his sister died, and Sookie tells him that while she didn’t witness Claudine’s death, she believes Breandan was responsible. Claude sits silently, and Sookie waits for him to strike and kill her. He finally leaves, walking toward the road. Sookie enters her house and falls to her knees, trembling; she realizes that she wants to live, after all.
THE SECOND WEEK OF MARCH. Sookie works out with her friend JB du Rone at the health club in Clarice, where he is a personal trainer, and then she talks with his wife, her best friend Tara, about the upcoming birth of the couple’s child. When Tara tells Sookie the baby will call her Aunt Sookie, she begins to plan a future.