When Sookie Stackhouse's vampire husband, Eric Northman, summons her to his Shreveport home to welcome the visiting king, Felipe de Castro, and his entourage, she's shocked to find Eric feeding on another woman, but when the woman Eric fed from turns up dead on his front lawn and Eric becomes the prime suspect of the murder, Sookie and her ex-boyfriend, Bill Compton, grudgingly set out to clear Eric's name and find the real killer.