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Charlaine Harris

Dead until Dark
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DEAD UNTIL DARK An Ace Book / published by arrangement with the author

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Copyright © 2001 by Charlaine Harris Schulz Cover art by Lisa Desimini
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My thanks and appreciation go to the people who thought this book
was a good idea— Dean James, Toni L. P. Kelner
and Gary and Susan Nowlin
Chapter 1

i'd been WAITING for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar.
Ever since vampires came out of the coffin (as they laugh-ingly put it) four years ago, I'd hoped one would come to
Bon Temps. We had all the other minorities in our little town—why not the newest, the legally recognized undead? But
rural northern Louisiana wasn't too tempting to vam-pires, apparently; on the other hand, New Orleans was a real
center for them—the whole Anne Rice thing, right?
It's not that long a drive from Bon Temps to New Orleans, and everyone who came into the bar said that if you threw a
rock on a street comer you'd hit one. Though you better not.
But I was waiting for my own vampire.
You can tell I don't get out much. And it's not because I'm not pretty. I am. I'm blond and blue-eyed and twenty-five,
and my legs are strong and my bosom is substantial, and I have a waspy waistline. I look good in the warm-weather