Lestat is back, saviour and demon, pre­si­ding over a gothic sto­ry of fami­ly greed and hatred through gene­ra­tions, a ter­ri­fying dra­ma of blood lust and betrayal, pos­ses­sion and matricide.

Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern man­sion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, har­bours ter­rible blood-stai­ned secrets and fami­ly ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beau­ti­ful, him­self a “blood­hun­ter” whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appe­tites but, even more dan­ge­rous­ly, to a com­pa­nion spi­rit, a “goblin” suc­cu­bus who could des­troy him and others. Only the unearth­ly power of Lestat com­bi­ned with the earth­ly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from him­self and his ghosts, or to rescue the doo­med girl Quinn loves from her own mortality…

Shocking, savage and richly ero­tic, this novel with the decep­ti­ve­ly gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most power­ful­ly dis­tur­bing. Here are vam­pires and witches, men and women, demons and a dop­pelg-nger, caught up in a mael­strom of death and des­truc­tion, blood and fire, cruel­ty and fate.