Dead to the World-Unguarded Affection

The fourth book is a pivotal and paramount book in the series in terms of Eric & Sookie. In the 1st chapter Bill confronts Sookie. He tried to explain but the bottomline was that he lied, raped and nearly killed her in the trunk. He wasn't the "great-guy" oder "knight in shining armor" that she had built him up to be. And, to confuse her even more, let's just say Eric--the guy she had always thought to be the exact opposite--was turning out to be well...different.
When she picked him up on the side of the road and decidedly risked her life to help him...