I Want You to Want Me

Erika Todd moves to New Orleans to pursue her career as a sculptor, staying with friends Ren and Maggie. Ren's brother Vittorio, an enigmatic, attractive musician (and vampire), shows up to stay with them, too; after a rocky start, Ericka and Vittorio cannot suppress their mutual attraction for one another. That draws the wrath of Vittorio's insane mother, Orabella, who has been hunting and killing her son's mortal lovers for decades, and sets the plot—son and lover with conflicted loyalties—in motion. Orabella is deliciously psychotic, but there's little beyond her in this familiar tale of Big Easy haunting. (Sept.)