True Blood is only two episodes in to its third season, but it’ll be back for a fourth.

On Monday, HBO renewed the show based on Charlaine Harris best-selling novels. The series stars Anna Paquin as mind-reading waitress Sookie Stackhouse, her fiance Stephen Moyer as the 173-year-old Southern vampire Bill Compton, and Alexander Skarsgard as Sheriff Eric Northman.

True Blood Season 4 will kick off with 12 new episodes premiering in the Summer of 2011.