Marius, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, tells the story of his two-thousand-year existence from his mortal life in Imperial Rome, to his servitude to the King and Queen of vampires, through the fall of Rome, the Renaissance, and on to the dawn of the twenty-first century which finds him seeking justice from some of the world's oldest vampires.

De la mano de Lestate conoceremos como se convirtio en el lider del mundo vampirico y su lucha para encontrar un lugar en el universo de los muertos vivientes y como, en contra de su voluntad, debe luchar contra las fuerzas amenazadoras y aparentemente inbatibles de la oscuridad. Desde las torres y las almenas de un castillo ancestral en las montanas nevadas de Francia hasta los verdes montes de Luisiana con sus fragancias a magnolias y jazmin, pasando...

Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittoro inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures -- a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. --- [Excerpt from back cover.]