The Wolf Gift Chronicles #2
Random House Incorporated
October 2013
On Sale: October 15, 2013
Featuring: Reuben Golding
400 pages ISBN: 0385349963 EAN: 9780385349963 Kindle: B00CGI3DZI Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In
Anne Rice’s surprising and compelling best-selling novel,
the first of her strange and mythic imagining of the world
of wolfen powers (“I devoured these pages . . . As solid and
engaging as anything she has written since her early
Vampire Chronicles fiction”—Alan Cheuse, The
Boston Globe; “A delectable cocktail of old-fashioned
lost-race adventure, shape-shifting, and suspense”—Elizabeth
Hand, The Washington Post), readers were spellbound
as Rice conjured up a daring new world set against the wild
and beckoning California coast.
Now in her new
novel, as lush and romantic in detail and atmosphere as it
is sleek and steely in storytelling, Anne Rice takes us once
again to the rugged coastline of Northern California, to the
grand mansion at Nideck Point, and further explores the
unearthly education of her transformed Man Wolf.
The
novel opens on a cold, gray landscape. It is the beginning
of December. Oak fires are burning in the stately flickering
hearths of Nideck Point. It is Yuletide. For Reuben
Golding, now infused with the Wolf Gift and under the loving
tutelage of the Morphenkinder, this promises to be a
Christmas like no other . . .
The Yuletide season,
sacred to much of the human race, has been equally sacred to
the Man Wolves, and Reuben soon becomes aware that they,
too, steeped in their own profound rituals, will celebrate
the ancient Midwinter festival deep within the verdant
richness of Nideck forest.
From out of the shadows
of Nideck comes a ghost—tormented, imploring, unable to
speak yet able to embrace and desire with desperate
affection . . . As Reuben finds himself caught up with—and
drawn to—the passions and yearnings of this spectral
presence, and as the swirl of preparations reaches a fever
pitch for the Nideck town Christmas festival of music and
pageantry, astonishing secrets are revealed; secrets that
tell of a strange netherworld, of spirits other than the
Morphenkinder, centuries old, who inhabit the dense
stretches of redwood and oak that surround the magnificent
house at Nideck Point, “ageless ones” who possess their own
fantastical ancient histories and who taunt with their dark
magical powers . . .
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