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At the center is the beautiful, unconquerable witch,  Merrick. She is a descendant of the gens de colors libres, a cast  derived from the black mistresses of white men, a society of New  Orleans octaroons and quadroons, steeped in the lore and ceremony of  voodoo, who reign in the shadowy world where the African and the  French--the white and the dark--intermingle. Her ancestors are the  Great Mayfair Witches, of whom she knows nothing--and from whom she  inherits the power and magical knowledge of a Circe.Into this  exotic New Orleans realm comes David Talbot, hero, storyteller,  adventurer, almost mortal vampire, visitor from another dark realm. It  is he who recounts Merrick's haunting tale--a tale that takes us from  the New Orleans of the past and present to the jungles of Guatemala,  from the Mayan ruins of a century ago to ancient civilizations not yet  explored.Anne Rice's richly told novel weaves an irresistible  story of two worlds: the witches' world and the vampires' world, where  magical powers and otherworldly fascinations are locked together in a  dance of seduction, death, and rebirth.

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