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Featured in our reading guide: Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles in Order (and Where the Mayfair Witches Fit)
by Anne Rice
Book two of the New Tales of the Vampires.
Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures - a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power.
In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the beautiful and sinister vampire Ursula - setting in motion a chilling chain of events that will mark his life for eternity. Against a backdrop of the wonders - both sacred and profane - and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.
Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She lived in San Francisco with her husband, the poet and painter, Stan Rice until 1988, when they returned to New Orleans to live with their son, Christopher. In 2006, Rice moved to Rancho Mirage, California. She died in 2021.
Sensuous... Its intensity never flags.
Los Angeles Times
Masterful... a story illuminated with the metaphor of gold, drenched in hellish darkness and dripping with blood.
USA Today
[A] lushly described story of how Vittorio di Riniari became a vampire... In the year 1450, he witnesses the massacre of his entire family by a band of demons.
Publishers Weekly
Another enchanting preternatural tale... superbly written and engaging.
Associated Press
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