**Warning Spoilers for book #1**
Dead Until Dark- Sookie Stackhouse is a telepathic who lives with her grandmother. Her parents died when she was young in an accident leaving grandma to care for Sookie and her brother Jason. Working at a bar in a small town is pretty boring until Sookie meets the vampire Bill. Vampires are now members of mainstream society. She is relived to find she cannot read vampires minds and it is a welcome break for her. Pretty soon people start turning up murdered by strangulation but with fang marks on their bodies. Sookie asks Bill to help her investigate at a well know vampire club. While there Sookie meets Eric, an older and stronger vampire than Bill. Basically Bill has to answer to Eric. Sookie is able to use her powers to find out who is stealing from Eric, a move that almost costs her her life. Now Eric is very interested in her and has contracted Bill to use Sookie's powers whenever he needs to. Being wary of Eric, Bill decides to become a vampire investigator that way Eric will be his boss and owes Bill his protection, this protection extends to anything belonging to Bill and that means Sookie is protected from any unwanted advances from Eric.
Getting back to the murders it doesn't take long until Jason is considered a suspect and their grandmother is among the victims. It is clear that Sookie was the intended target. In the end it is a friend of Jason's who is killing women who have been known to fraternize with vampires and he almost does kill Sookie as well but she is able to overpower him due to the vampire blood she has been ingesting. And on a side note we discover that Sam (Sookie's boss) not only has a thing for her but he is a shape-shifter as well!
Living Dead in Dallas takes our new twosome to, well you guessed it, Dallas. Eric has contracted Sookie out to the vampires of Dallas in order to help them locate a missing vampire. Naturally she needs an escort and that would be Bill. But first a coworker has been murdered and the body left in a police officer's car outside of the bar and Sookie gets attacked by a crazy woman beast in the forest as a message to Eric. The attack almost kills her yet again.
Now they are in Dallas. While investigating the vampire's disappearance Sookie discovers a new anti-vampire organization called "The Fellowship of the Sun". Seemingly a little nutty but basically harmless at first. Their main mission is to help vampires see the light, quite literally as in "meet the sun", but they should not be underestimated.
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I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. "I knew I'd get on top of you somehow," he said.
"Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am?"
"No, I'm just opportunistic."
I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, "Oh, do that again. It felt great.”
