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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 tyro '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 ubiquitous 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 brings us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing.
Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and doppelganger,
caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and
fire, cruelty and fate.
Source:
Blackwood Farm jacket cover
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