Perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive
strains of narrative--her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair
witches--to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral
secrets.
Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing
rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar
Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man
haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgänger, "Goblin," a spirit
from a dream world that Quinn can't escape and that prevents him from
belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is
rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgänger
becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself.
As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinn's boyhood
on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to
19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the
hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back
to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds.
A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of
secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing
best.