Vampire fiction keeps coming back to New Orleans, and it is not an accident. Some cities are built for the immortal, and this is the one that admits it.
A city that keeps its dead close
New Orleans buries above ground, celebrates its funerals, and has never been embarrassed by the past the way newer cities are. It is humid and slow and a little haunted by design. For a creature that measures time in centuries, it is one of the few American places that feels like it is keeping the same hours.
The House that stayed
In the Bloodbound Houses, New Orleans is St. Croix's city — the only immortal family that held a seat in the New World while the others clung to Europe. The lead of the trilogy is found here, working nights in a small genetics lab off Esplanade, with no idea that the city she grew up in has been quietly keeping her for two hundred years.
Where the story starts
The French Quarter, a reliquary that should have stayed sealed, and a blood match seven hundred years too old to be possible. The first book never leaves you wondering why it is set here. By the end you understand that the city is not a backdrop. It is the last thing standing between the heroine and everything that wants her.
Some cities are built for the immortal. This is the one that admits it.