Synopsis for the Next Sookie Stackhouse Novel (SPOILERS)

Those of us who came to True Blood as fans of Charlaine Harris’s books, and those who discovered the books after the TV show, are eagerly awaiting the next installment of the Southern Vampire series, due in May 2010. Charlaine finished writing Book 10, titled “Dead in the Family”, earlier this week and it’s now on to the editing process. A synopsis has already been posted at W.H. Smith, although we aren’t quite positive that it’s legit. Read on and decide for yourself:

Sookie Stackhouse has finally settled into a relationship with the Viking vampire Eric, and her errant brother Jason seems to have his life in order, too. But all the other people in Sookie’s life – Eric himself, her former lover Bill, her friend and boss Sam – are having family problems. Eric’s maker shows up with Eric’s ‘brother’ in tow, the ailing Bill can only be healed by a blood sibling, and Sam’s brother’s marriage is about to take place …or will it? The furor raised by the coming out of the two-natured has yet to settle; some people are just not ready to sit down to dinner with a man who turns into a dog. And Sookie herself is still recovering from her last ordeal. She’s definitely improving, physically and mentally, but she’s always going to have some dark moments now. The werewolves tell her that there have been strange and ominous passers-by in the Stackhouse woods; now Sookie is about to come face-to-face with one of her more distant relatives …

Sound plausible? Farfetched? Don’t care, just want the book NOW? We hear that!