Sookie 13.5 After Dead by Charlaine Harris Read Free Book Online Page A

endorse high-end security systems and an online dating club for opinionated supernaturals. She enjoys testing the security systems, but her dates have a way of vanishing.

DAVID and GENEVIEVE THRASH finally tracked down Sookie years after she’d warned them in time to escape disaster at Sophie-Anne’s party house in New Orleans. After they reconnected with her, there were never any problems with Merlotte’s state licenses.

TIJGERIN , Quinn’s mate—at least for a time—persisted in her plan of birthing and raising her child in secrecy. She did keep Quinn up-to-date. They had a boy named Diederik.

The weather witch JULIAN TROUT disappeared from Channel 7 in Rhodes (and the supernatural scene) with his wife, Olive, following his realization that he could have saved lives in New Orleans by predicting the severity of Katrina . . . if anyone besides supernaturals would have listened to him. It took years for Trout to come to terms with his conscience. After that, he got a job at the Weather Channel, where he does his best to avert disasters.



Barmaid INDIA UNGER drove up to Iowa with physical therapist Gwen Long to get legally married. They adopted a child, a baby boy with a cleft palate. He had a few surgeries, but he became a handsome young man. India kept her job at Merlotte’s until she began working at a Denny’s and eventually became the manager. She and Gwen had a few bumps in the road facing homophobia and racism, but they remained together. Their son became a hospital administrator.



JUDITH VARDAMON continued to drop in on Bill every ten years or so, to “see how he was doing.” Sadly, he never found it in him to return her affection.

Texas vampire JOSEPH VELASQUEZ kept his position as King of Texas for the next two hundred years. He never trusted a human telepath again.

GLEN and PORTIA BELLEFLEUR VICK had a son, Matthew, who was a total nerd and proud of it. He inherited his dad’s skill with numbers and his mother’s calm perseverance, and he became a lawyer with a practice focusing on estate planning. When he was in his midthirties, he married a very nice interior decorator named Jonathan.



WARREN continued to be a great marksman and constant companion of Mustapha Khan’s for many years, though he never fully recovered from his ordeal at the hands of Jannalynn.

FBI agent SARA WEISS resigned in the year following her shooting. She became a follower of all things supernatural. Her husband and sons didn’t know what to make of this development, and Sara grew more and more despondent as they drifted further apart. She got a job as a firearms instructor at a local gun range and finally began to put her life back together.

QUIANA WONG drifted down to New Orleans after her apprenticeship with Marilyn to make her own living as a psychic. She’d learned how to make a public splash and emphasized her Asian heritage by wearing a kimono and a fantastic hairdo. Backed by some seed money from Amelia Broadway, eventually Quiana opened a store called The World of Wong, with a stable of psychic readers, “magic” objects and books, and a huge inventory of kimonos.



XAVIER , the bouncer at Stompin’ Sally’s, recovered slowly from his wound. He trained with an old army buddy to get back in shape, and eventually he resumed his job at the country-and-western bar. He and Sally grew close during his recuperation, and though they didn’t marry, they lived together for the rest of their lives.



VERENA ROSE YANCY established a scholarship in honor of her murdered daughter, Adabelle. Ostensibly, the scholarship pays for the education of any young woman interested in fashion and merchandising, provided she passes the examination of Verena’s lawyer. In actuality, the young woman most like to be chosen is a werewolf.



BETHANY ZANELLI , coach of the Lady Falcons (and wife of Chet Zanelli), had twin girls during her fifth year in Bon Temps. She was offered a job with a big high school in Missouri, but her