Babcock, Connie: The receptionist at Herveaux and Son, Connie is sleeping with Jackson Herveaux. She resents Jackson’s escorting Christine Larrabee to Colonel Flood’s funeral. She’s unaware that her boss/lover is a werewolf and thus doesn’t know that Jackson needs Christine’s political support. She retaliates by accepting a bribe to steal personal papers from Jackson, most likely for Patrick Furnan. (DTTW; mentioned DAAD)

Baldwin, Liz: Liz worries about her family, especially her oldest granddaughter, while trying to relax at Merlotte’s. (DAAD)

Ball, Lorena (vampire): Lorena Ball is working as a prostitute in New Orleans when she meets Solomon Brunswick in 1788. Fascinated when Solomon drains a customer whose throat she slit for not paying, she has Solomon turn her and travels with him for a time. She eventually betrays her sire, pretending to be human when she is caught with a dead child she is draining and blaming the death on Solomon, and they go their separate ways.

Lorena sees Bill after he returns home from the Civil War and falls in love as she spies on him and his family. She takes him by surprise one night and fakes his death so that she can have him as a companion and lover. She compels him to stay with her, even going so far as to create a companion for him by turning a woman who resembles his lost wife. Though she finally allows her children to leave her, she calls Bill back again after eighty-odd years when she learns of his profitable vampire database. When she cannot seduce its location from him, she resorts to torture to get not only the database but also the name of the woman Bill is involved with. Lorena attacks Sookie while she is rescuing Bill and meets her final death at Sookie’s hands. (Dies CD; mentioned DTTW, DAAD, ATD, DITF, DR)

Ballinger, Bonnie: The daughter of Doke and Mindy, three-year-old Bonnie doesn’t understand the protesters’ screaming and violence on the day of her uncle’s wedding. (STW; mentioned FDTW, DAG, DITF)

Ballinger, Doke: Doke and Mindy Merlotte attended high school together in Wright and married young. They soon moved to nearby Mooney, where Doke has a job with a wind turbine manufacturing plant. Doke’s children are his main worry on the day of Craig and Deidra’s wedding, but he decides the whole family should stick together and attend the ceremony. (STW; mentioned FDTW)

Ballinger, Mason: Doke and Mindy’s five-year-old son, Mason, can’t comprehend the animosity directed toward his beloved grandmother Merlotte. (STW; mentioned FDTW, DAG, DITF)