Summaries

LIFE IN BON TEMPS
BY VICTORIA KOSKI
Dead Until Dark
Timeline
SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 2004. Sookie Stackhouse, telepath, is working the
evening shift at Merlotte’s bar when a vampire comes in to order a drink. Although
vampires have been “out of the coffin” for two years, Bill Compton is the first one
to come to her little town of Bon Temps, and she is delighted by the new
experience. Local lowlifes Mack and Denise Rattray soon move to Bill’s table,
where Denise flirts with the vampire. Worried by their avid interest in Bill, Sookie
“listens” and finds, to her horror, that the Rattrays have been in jail for draining
vampires, a practice that involves forcibly restraining a vampire (a feat unto itself),
draining its blood to sell on the black market, and leaving the vampire to die in the
rising sun. When Bill leaves with the Rattrays, Sookie dithers