The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, Book 3) - Rice, Anne

The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, Book 3) by Rice, Anne

Format: Mass-Market Paperback

Published by Ballantine Books, 1989

In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat-in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead. The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco. Among the audience-pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration-are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a "greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals," fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him. The sleep of certain men and women-vampires and mortals scattered around the world-is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy. It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other-some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey's end.