Tara Thornton

Tara is Lafayette Reynolds' cousin and the life-long friend of Sookie Stackhouse. Tara's parents where drunks and abusive, however the only parent we meet in the TV series is Lettie Mae Thornton, her mother. Tara also had two siblings however they left Bon Temps

At the beginning of the TV series we see Tara lose her job at a store due to abusive language to a customer. She then heads to Merlotte's to drown her sorrows in drink, and when Bill Compton enters and she see's how besotted Sookie us with him, she warns her best friend against getting too friendly with the vampire.

Tara later acquires a bartending job at Merlotte's and we discover that she has long had feelings for Sookie's brother, Jason Stackhouse.