With her grandma as the most recent survivor of the baffling sequential executioner, Sookie needs to manage her feelings. She can't shut out the considerations of others and she knows huge numbers of the townspeople accuse her relationship with a vampire as the primary explanation her grandma is presently dead. She has an unmistakable message for them at the lady's burial service. Notwithstanding Sam and Bill's arguing, Sookie demands remaining in the house. She does anyway choose to go through the night with Bill to lose her virginity for the last time. In the interim, Jason grapples with withdrawal side effects from his 'V ...