The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice’s spellbinding new novel, in which   the great vampire Marius returns.  The golden-haired Marius,...
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											true Child of the Millennia,   once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the   Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti- mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year   existence. Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, kidnapped and made a “blood god†  by the Druids, Marius becomes the embittered protector of Akasha and Enkil, Queen   and King of the vampires, in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. We   follow him through his heartbreaking abandonment of the vampire Pandora. Through   him we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine and the horrific sack   of the Eternal City itself at the hands of the Visigoths.  Bravely, Marius seeks   a new civilization in the midst of glittering Constantinople, only to meet with the   blood drinker Eudoxia. We see him ultimately returning to his beloved Italy, where   after the horrors of the Black Death, he is restored by the beauty of the Renaissance.   We see him become a painter living dangerously  yet happily among mortals, giving   his heart to the great Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the   mysterious young apprentice Armand. Moving from Rome to Florence, Venice, and Dresden,   and to the English castle of the secret scholarly order of the Talamasca, the novel   reaches its dramatic finale in our own time, deep in the jungle where Marius, having   told his life story, seeks some measure of justice from the oldest vampires in the   world.Look for Anne Rice’s new book, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, coming November 29, 2016.
											
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