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.
She lives in Palm Desert, California..
This is popular fiction of the highest order." -- USA Today "A tour de force." --The Boston Globe About author(s): Anne Rice is the author of thirty-two books. . . intelligently written . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology." -- San Francisco Chronicle "With The Queen of the Damned , Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida." -- Los Angeles Times "Imaginative . . .
Praise for The Queen of the Damned "Mesmerizing .
The Vampire Chronicles continue in Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, available for pre-order now.
Look for a special preview of Anne Rice \'s Prince Lestat in the back of the book.
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.
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