Blackwood Farm - Anne Rice

In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive
strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches --
to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets.

Welcome to
Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched
gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn
Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgnger,
"Goblin," a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can't escape and that prevents him
from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully
his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgnger becomes even more vampiric
and terrifying than Quinn himself.

As the novel moves backwards and forwards in
time, from Quinn's boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient
Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the
hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar
Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds.

A story of youth and promise, of
loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice
at her mesmerizing best.