New Tales of the Vampire #1 - Orig. Published March, 1998
Random House
January 1999
Featuring: David; Pandora
368 pages ISBN: 0345422384 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair
witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us
the first in a new series of novels linked together by the
fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become
a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in
present-day Paris in a crowded cafe, where David meets
Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the
Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great
Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life.
Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with
increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which
takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to
eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and
New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in
the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid
and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in
love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-
mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in
fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take
over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of
Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius,
now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will
bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught
and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries
together.
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