Within a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, that has risen from a six-thousand-year rest to let loose the capabilities of the night. Akasha includes a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat-in this extraordinarily sensual book of the complex, erotic, electrifying world from the undead.

Praise for The Queen of the Damned

“Mesmerizing . an excellent internet of dark-side mythology.”-San Francisco Chronicle

“USING THE Queen from the Damned, Anne Grain has generated universes within universes, journeying back in its history so far as historic, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from your frozen hill peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating roads of southern Florida.”-Los Angeles Situations

“Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”-USA Today

“A tour de pressure.”-The Boston Globe