Dead and Gone

<br> <p><b>Visit our Sookie Stackhouse series feature page</b>.</p> <b>Now an HBO original series, <i>True Blood</i>-the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues.</b><br> <br> Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps-and nothing about weres.<br> <br> 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 works-and she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it.<br> <br> But there's a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beings-older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves-is preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.<br> <br>