Lestat is back with a ven­geance and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair. Both demon and angel, he is drawn to kill but temp­ted by good­ness as he moves among the pan­theon of Anne Rice’s unfor­get­table cha­rac­ters : Julien Mayfair, his tor­men­tor ; Rowan, witch and neu­ro­sur­geon, who attracts spi­rits to her­self, casts spells on others and finds her­self dan­ge­rous­ly drawn to Lestat ; Patsy, coun­try and wes­tern sin­ger, who was killed by Quinn Blackwood and dum­ped in a swamp ; Ash Templeton, a 5,000 – year-old Taltos whose genes live on in the Mayfairs.
Now, Lestat fights to save Patsy’s ghost from the dark realms of the Earthbound, to unco­ver the mys­te­ry of the Taltos and to decide the fate of Rowan Mayfair.
Anne Rice’s irre­sis­tible realms – the worlds of Blackwood Farm and the Mayfair Witches – col­lide as Lestat struggles bet­ween his lust for blood and the quest for life, bet­ween gra­ti­fi­ca­tion and redemption.