NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel
outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, telling us the mesmerizing
story of how he became prince of the vampire world, and of the formation
of the Blood Communion, and how his vision for the Children of the
Universe to thrive as one, came to be.
Lestat takes us from his ancestral castle in the snow-covered mountains
of France to the verdant wilds of lush Louisiana, with its lingering
fragrances of magnolias and night jasmine; from the far reaches of the
Pacific's untouched islands to the 18th-century city of St. Petersburg
and the court of the Empress Catherine. He speaks of his fierce battle
of wits and words with the mysterious Rhoshamandes, proud Child of the
Millennia, reviled outcast for his senseless slaughter of the legendary
ancient vampire Maharet, avowed enemy of Queen Akasha, who refuses to
live in harmony at court and who threatens all Lestat has dreamt of....