Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

This is the first book in the series, it follows a telepathic waitress that falls for the first vampire to come to her small Louisiana town after vampires publicly emerged thanks to synthetic blood.

This book contains; alcohol, alternate gender/sexual ideologies, animal cruelty, blackmail, controversial cultural, gender and
social commentary, dark content, derogatory terms, deviant content, drugs (implied), dubious consent, explicit sexual
activities/nudity, gore, grief, lying, molestation, morbid interest in sex/nudity, murder, necrophilia, potentially patently offensive content, potentially prurient content, profanity, prostitution (mentioned), rape,
sexual harassment, smoking, stealing and
violence.