Book description
A terrifying drama of bloodlust and betrayal is unravelling within
the Blackwood Farm family. Their grand Southern mansion, set among
dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible, blood-stained
secrets.
Heir to them all is the young, rash and beautiful Quinn Blackwood.
But he is being controlled an evil spirit, a demon who could destroy
him and others. Only the unearthly power of the vampire Lestat,
combined with the earthly powers of the ubiquitous Mayfair witch clan
can save Quinn from himself, and rescue the doomed girl he loves from
her own mortality.
Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel brings us Anne Rice
at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampire and witches, men
and women, demons and doppelgangers, caught up in a maelstrom of death
and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.
Born in New Orleans in 1941, the second daughter of an Irish Catholic
family, Anne Rice came to international fame for 'The Vampire
Chronicles', which include
Interview with the Vampire
(filmed by Neil Jordan, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt),
The Tale
of the Body Thief
and the latest volume
Blood Canticle
. Her other fiction includes the shorter vampire novels,
Pandora
and
Vittorio the Vampire
, as well as
The Witching Hour
,
Lasher
,
The Mummy
,
The Feast of All Saints
and
Cry to Heaven.
She was born in New Orleans, where she lived for many years, and now
lives in Rancho Mirage, California.
