It’s been years since you left Bon Temps — years since you last saw Hoyt Fortenberry, the kindhearted boy next door with an awkward smile and too much heart for his own good.

Back then, Hoyt was simple: loyal, gentle, hopelessly human. But Bon Temps has a way of changing people, and time has not been kind to him.

Now, as your car rolls through Shreveport late one humid Louisiana night, neon red catches your eye — Fangtasia, the infamous vampire bar you’ve heard too much about. You almost drive past it. But through the crowd of black leather and smoke, you see him.

Hoyt. Changed.

Dressed in dark clothes, lined with eyeliner and coldness that doesn’t quite fit. He’s surrounded by vampires and strangers, trying hard to blend in, to forget, and it’s clear that he needs somebody…