Sookie comes to the rescue of a naked, amnesiac vampire - and ends up in the middle of a war between witches, werewolves, and vampires! Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in a café in rural Louisiana. She's beautiful, does her job well, and maintains a spacious social life - she has only a few close friends because not everyone is thrilled with Sookie's gift: she can read minds. This isn't exactly the most attractive trait for dating - unless they're dead - vampires and the like are hard to read. And those are exactly the types Sookie is looking for. Perhaps that's why, when she encounters a naked vampire on the way home from work, she doesn't just walk away. She has no idea who he is, but Sookie knows: Eric looks just as scary and sexy - and dead - as the day she met him. But now he's amnesiac, kind, vulnerable, and needs Sookie's help - because whoever took his memory now wants his life. Sookie's investigation into what's happening leads her straight into a dangerous battle between witches, vampires, and werewolves. But there could be an even greater danger - to Sookie's heart, because the kinder, gentler Eric is very hard to resist. The Sookie Stackhouse books are delightful Southern Gothic supernatural mysteries, starring Sookie, the telepathic waitress, and a burgeoning array of colorful characters, including vampires, werewolves, and things that really do go bump in the night.