Harris, Charlaine

Contains five short stories from Charlaine Harris that feature Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress, and her adventures with vampires, fairies, and other supernatural occurrences.

Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse is enraged to learn that her vampire lover Bill has betrayed her with his vampire ex-girlfriend, but when his boss tells her that Bill is missing and likely in danger, she finds that she still cares and enters a bizarre Mississippi club scene frequented by werewolves to try to find him.

Mind reader Sookie Stackhouse fears for her brother's life when a sniper sets his sights on the local changeling population, leaving Sookie until the next full moon to find the killer before he has a chance to shoot her brother and the city's other shapeshifters.

Louisiana cocktail waitress and mind-reader Sookie Stackhouse agrees to help the local vampire community locate a missing member on the condition that no humans be harmed, but things start to go wrong when a delicious blonde arrives on the scene.

Louisiana telepath and cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is friendly with a pack of werewolves and blood bonded to a vampire leader, finds herself caught in the middle of a werewolf power struggle and learns about her family's past and her powers from her great grandfather.

Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse unexpectedly inherits the estate of her cousin Hadley, a consort of the vampire queen of New Orleans, and finds herself facing a group of undead enemies who will stop at nothing to keep Sookie from looking into Hadley's past and possessions.

Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, cursed with the ability to read minds, thinks she has finally gotten lucky when tall, dark, handsome Bill, whose mind is totally blocked from her, comes into her life, but she soon learns that her dream man is a vampire with a bad reputation, and when a murder goes down, she begins to fear for her life.

Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is used to the undead, changeling, and preternatural beings that surround her, but the shapeshifter Quinn and the Rhodes vampire summit test Sookie's patience for the supernatural and pull her into a dangerous situation that threatens the fate of humanity.

Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver travel to Memphis at the request of anthropologist and skeptic Dr. Clyde Nunley to test Harper's unique ability to find dead people--a talent she acquired after being hit by lightning--only to find themselves under suspicion when Harper senses and finds the body of a child who went missing from Nashville eighteen months earlier.