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. Here are vampires and witches,
men and women, demons and doppelg-nger, caught up in a maelstrom of death
and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.