title: The Vampire Jerome
author: Morris, Ann B.
description: The Whitcombe Legacy: Triplet brothers were initiated into the vampiric life 125 years go. Now they will either fulfill their family legacy and save the world from evil vampires, or forfeit their chance to become human again.
  
  Book Two: Jerome Whitcombe, second born of the Whitcombe vampire triplets, has embraced his life as a vampire and has no desire to become human again. Without Jerome's cooperation, the final step in the restoration of his brother Julian's humanity cannot be completed, and The Whitcombe Legacy will never be fulfilled. Jerome isn't convinced that's a bad thing because without vampiric powers he can't see how they can possibly defeat their enemies. Then his brother sends Dottie Crawford to him and tasks Jerome with the woman's medical care and safety. During Hurricane Katrina, Dottie was kidnapped by the evil vampire Zurik and contracted a rare form of sleeping sickness that, amid the hurricane's aftermath, can't be treated in New Orleans. But from the moment Jerome meets Dottie, he knows that recovery from her illness is the least of her concerns. He's drawn to her in the most basic vampiric way-he craves her blood.Soon Jerome is caught in a struggle between the darkness he has come to embrace and his return to humankind. In the balance hangs the life of the woman he loves.