Book Eleven "Dead to the World" by Charlaine Harris

It is New Eve in Bon Temps at the beginning of Dead to the World, and Sookie Stackhouse has made an resolution to not get beaten up in the new year. After all of the drama that has entered her life since becoming enthralled in the world of vampires, all she really wants to do is have some simple alone time.

This doesn't last long due to the fact that she finds Eric running barefoot in the woods as she is driving home. She stops the car to check on him, and realized that he has no recollection of her. In fact he has no recollection of anything. Sookie eventually gets ahold of Pam, Eric's second in command. When they finally meet up, Pam informs them that they had been having a dispute with the local witches in the Shreveport community, and unfortunately they had put a curse on Eric.

After much discussion, they decide that Eric must stay with Sookie until the entire ordeal is cleared up. Eventually their relationship begins to get heated. However, not all is well in paradise, since Sookie's brother Jason has been missing for the past few days.

Eventually the witch dilemma gets out of hand and the vampires and the werewolves and to join forces to defeat them. There is a huge brawl with does not end in the witches favor. After all of this is done, Pam takes the head witch with her to get her to break the spell on Eric, while Sookie and Eric head back to her house for safe keeping until his memory returns.

They are greeted by Debbie Pelt (Alcides ex-girlfriend) and a gun, when they enter Sookie's house. Debbie shoots but Eric blocks the bullet. This gives Sookie just enough time to get her brother's gun from behind the water heater, and finish Debbie's life, in self defense. As Sookie cleans up the aftermath, Eric disposes of the body and the car.

When Sookie wakes up the next morning, she finds that Eric is back to his normal self, with no recollection of the time he spent at Sookie's house. But he knows that there has been a change in the relationship that they once shared, but Sookie isn't willing to fess up.

With the help of her boss Sam, Sookie finds her brother, Jason, is being held hostage on the outskirts of town by a group of shape-shifting panthers. He has been bitten several times, but he is not in danger of death. She takes her brother home, after the leader of the panthers swears to take care of the problem himself.