Blood Canticle

Lestat is the narrator once more, his first turn at the telling since Memnoch the Devil. After his encounters with God and Satan, he is trying to live more decently, and he hunts only people who deserve to die.

Mona Mayfair is a young witch and an heiress. She is dying of a sickness that started when she gave birth to her daughter. Lestat gives her the Dark Trick so she can stay with her lover, the young vampire Quinn Blackwood.

Lestat is also drawn to Rowan Mayfair, a married neurosurgeon and witch who guards her family's secrets. Through her he learns how the Mayfairs are tied to the Taltos, and the group sets out for New Orleans and then on to the Taltos, looking for answers.

This is the tenth novel in The Vampire Chronicles, published in 2003 and following Blackwood Farm. It brings the vampires together with the Mayfair witches of Anne Rice's earlier trilogy, so the cast of both series shares the page.