The third book in The Vampire Chronicles, Queen of the Damned, follows three parallel storylines.
Vampire Chronicles #3 - Originally Published October, 1988
Ballantine
October 1987
Featuring: Lestat; Akasha
512 pages ISBN: 0345351525 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
The rock star Vampire Lestat prepares for a concert in San
Francisco, unaware that hundreds of vampires will be among
the fans that night and that they are committed to
destroying him for risking exposing them all.
The sleep of a group of men and women, vampires and
mortals,
around the world is disturbed by a mysterious dream of
red-haired twins who suffer an unspeakable tragedy. The
dreamers, as if pulled, move toward each other, the
nightmare becoming clearer the closer they get. Some die on
the way, some live to face they terrifying fate their
pilgrimage is building to.
Lestat's journey to a cavern deep beneath a Greek Island on
his quest for the origins of the vampire race awakened
Akasha, Queen of the Damed and mother of all vampires, from
her 6,000 year sleep. Awake and angry, Akasha plans to save
mankind from itself by elevating herself and her chosen
son/lover to the level of the gods.
As these three threads wind seamlessly together, the
origins
and culture of vampires are revealed, as is the length and
breadth of their effect on the mortal world. The threads
are
brought together in the twentieth century when the fate of
the living and the living dead is rewritten.