Dead Ever After

There are secrets in the town of Bon Temps, ones that threaten those closest to Sookie and could destroy her heart...
Sookie Stackhouse finds it easy to turn down the request of former barmaid Arlene when she wants her job back at Merlotte’s. After all, Arlene tried to have Sookie killed. But her relationship with Eric Northman is not so clearcut. He and his vampires are keeping their distance…and a cold silence. And when Sookie learns the reason why, she is devastated.
Then a shocking murder rocks Bon Temps, and Sookie is arrested for the crime.
But the evidence against Sookie is weak, and she makes bail. Investigating the killing, she’ll learn that what passes for truth in Bon Temps is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough...
"The New Orleans businessman, whose gray hair put him in his fifties, was accompanied by his much younger and taller bodyguard/chauffeur on the night he met the devil in the French Quarter. The meeting was by prearrangement. This is really the Devil we’re going to see? asked the bodyguard. He was tense but then, that wasn’t too surprising. Not the Devil, but a devil. The businessman was cool and collected on the outside, but maybe not so much on the inside. Since he came up to me at the Chamber of Commerce banquet, I’ve learned a lot of things I didn’t know before. He looked around him, trying to spot the creature he’d agreed to meet. He told his bodyguard, He convinced me that he was what he said he was. I always thought my daughter was simply deluded. I thought she imagined she had power because she wanted to have something... of her own. Now I’m willing to admit she has a certain talent, though nowhere near what she thinks."