Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She`s a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar, she has a love life, albeit a complicated one, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life - but things just seem to happen to her and her friends. Now her brother Jason is about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. She can deal with that, but her normal sisterly concern turns to cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local shifter population...