Vampires, witchcraft and voodoo come together in this vivid, exotic and terrifying novel Louis is a vampire tortured by guilt. His status as a killer has left him conflicted for much of his immortal life, but after the murder of Claudia, his beloved child vampire, he spirals into a state of depression.
"Rice writes with a captivating elegance and a mordant wit. She can create fear in the dark but her most dangerous gift is that the shivers sent down the spine are most sensual" Literary Review 20020614 "Rice knows what her readers want - scene after scene of magic and conjuring, with a liberal sprinkling of horror and eroticism" Times Literary Supplement "Rice's writing is wonderfully imaginative and as creepily splendid as a hot-house orchid" Sunday Times 20020614 "Rice's witches are sensual glamorous beings, bisexual and hedonistic, whose power is a knife that cuts both ways" GQ 20020614 "Sensuous... A steaming brew of vampires and witches" Los Angeles Tmes
