The supernatural community in Bon Temps, Louisiana, is struck by two severe blows: the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the human terror of the explosion at the vampire summit in Rhodes. Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, longing for normalcy to return. However, this does not happen. Many vampires - friends and foes - lost their lives or were injured, and her friend, weretiger Quinn, is missing. It is clear that things are changing, whether the weres and vamps like it or not. Sookie, a Friend of the Pack, who is bound to the leader of the local vampire community, finds herself entangled in these changes. She faces danger and death and, not for the first time, betrayal by someone she loves. When the storm has passed and the cold blood has stopped flowing, Sookie's world will have changed forever...