Book description
When last the vampire Lestat was seen, he was rising from the dead in
present-day New Orleans to walk again among Anne Rice's unforgettable
undead. Now Lestat lives again, but in a twilight world of music and
memory.
His charismatic friend Louis de Pointe du Lac is tortured by the
memory of the child vampire, Claudia, whom he loved and lost. He calls
on Merrick, young and gorgeous mixed-race by-blow of the rich New
Orleans Mayfair clan. To save Louis' sanity, Merrick must use her
black witchcraft to call up the ghost of Claudia - however dangerous
this may be. There are other Mayfair spirits who will not lie still,
and her search takes her close to the edge, through blood and terror,
ritual and violence.
Sweeping from New Orleans to the Brazilian jungle and the island of
Haiti, this is vampire literature at its most tantalising, sexy and irresistible.
Anne Rice is the author of
The Vampire
Chronicles
and creator of phenomenally successful fictional worlds in 25 previous
novels, most recently
Blackwood Farm
and
Blood Canticle
. She recently moved from her native New Orleans to La Jolla,
California.
