Description
"RICE WRITES WITH HER USUAL EROTIC AND HISTORICALLY EVOCATIVE FLAIR."
-People
Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires-in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the horrific sack of the Eternal City at the hands of the Visigoths, and the vile aftermath of the Black Death. Ultimately restored by the beauty of the Renaissance, Marius becomes a painter, living dangerously yet happily among mortals, and giving his heart to the great master Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand. But it is in the present day, deep in the jungle, when Marius will meet his fate seeking justice from the oldest vampires in the world. . . .
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 10/29/2002
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 6.94h x 4.48w x 1.33d
ISBN13: 9780345409324
ISBN10: 0345409329
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Horror | General
- Fiction | Fantasy | Paranormal
- Fiction | Thrillers | Supernatural
-People
Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires-in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the horrific sack of the Eternal City at the hands of the Visigoths, and the vile aftermath of the Black Death. Ultimately restored by the beauty of the Renaissance, Marius becomes a painter, living dangerously yet happily among mortals, and giving his heart to the great master Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand. But it is in the present day, deep in the jungle, when Marius will meet his fate seeking justice from the oldest vampires in the world. . . .
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 10/29/2002
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 6.94h x 4.48w x 1.33d
ISBN13: 9780345409324
ISBN10: 0345409329
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Horror | General
- Fiction | Fantasy | Paranormal
- Fiction | Thrillers | Supernatural
About the Author
Anne Rice is the author of twenty-four books. She lives in New Orleans with her husband, the poet and painter Stan Rice.