This is another of Charlaine Harris' "Southern Vampire" series, starring barmaid Sookie Stackhouse. In her time, the vampires came out of the closet when the Japanese invented a cheap artificial blood product which did away with the need to be predators (except, of course, for fun and/or profit!). But the shapeshifters are still in the closet and so are the witches.

Along comes amnesiac master vampire Eric Northman (yes, he used to be a Viking), in need of a place to hide and a much nicer guy with his memory gone. And Sookie's brother Jason has disappeared after dating a pretty young shapeshifter. Many complications ensue. Humorous high points are the reappearance of Bubba, a brain-damaged vampire who was once a singer so famous, everyone in the country would know him on sight; and Sookie's puzzled reaction to the presence of neo-pagans in a parish where everyone she knows is Christian. (Though she knows there's a synagogue in Shreveport.) And Eric lecturing feckless Brother Jason on his duty to protect and support his big sister by taking her into his household - there's a lot more chivalry in the barbarian Eric then used to be, in his 21st century persona.

And, as always, the tale ends in something big having happened, which will certainly show up in the next book. Enjoy!