Dead and Gone

A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood)

By Charlaine Harris

Heat level

Warm

Now an HBO original series, True Bloodthe New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues.Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vampsand nothing about weres.Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie worksand she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it.But theres a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beingsolder, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolvesis preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.

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