The Fae War may have been brief, but it was exceptionally costly, and Sookie Stackhouse is still recovering from its effects. The physical recovery from her torture at the hands of two merciless fairies has been helped along by the blood of her blood-bonded “husband” Eric Northman, but the emotional damage is taking longer to heal. And, it’s not helped by the fact that Eric is distracted by vampire politics, Bill is still sick and depressed from his fairy-inflicted wounds, Sookie’s five-year-old cousin is telepathic and not adjusting well, Sam, Alcide, and the rest of the two-natured community are caught up in the political and social backlash of revealing themselves to the public… and not all of the fae left the human world at the end of the war, and it seems one or two of them have a major bone to pick with Sookie.