As a person with so few living relatives, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse really hated to lose one. But she never guessed that it would be her cousin Hadley a consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans. After all, technically speaking, Hadley was already dead. And now, as unexpected heir to Hadley s estate, Sookie discovers the inheritance definitely comes with a risk. Someone doesn t want Sookie looking too deeply into Hadley s past or for that matter, Hadley s possessions. And they re prepared to do anything in their power to stop her. But who? The range of suspects runs from the Rogue Weres who reject Sookie as a friend of the Pack to the Vampire Queen herself, who could be working through a particularly vulnerable subject Sookie s first love, Bill. Whoever it is, they re definitely dangerous and Sookie s life is definitely on the line