Lestat, quien ya fuera esencia de la maldad, lucha esta vez contra su propia condicion de vampiro anhleando alcanzar la pureza. Al mismo tiempo se enfrenta a diferentes fantasmas, leyendas y secretos, asi como al misterio de Taltos, mientras trata de reconducir el destino de su amada Rowan Mayfair. En Cantico de sangre coinciden varios de las legendarias series de Anne Rice Cronicas Vampiricas y Las Brujas de Mayfair. Reaparecen Mona Mayfair, la mujer que mientras espera la muerte en Blackwood Farm es arrastrada al reino de los inmortales; Rowan Mayfair, la bruja y neurocirujana que siente una peligrosa atraccion por Lestat; Patsy, una cantante de country que regresa para enfrentarse a la persona que la asesino; y el espiritu de Julien Mayfair, el guardian de la familia, cuya mision consiste en vengarse de Lestat. / Fiery, fierce, and erotic, Blood Canticle marks the triumphant culmination of Anne Rices bestselling Vampire Chronicles, as Lestat tells his astounding tale of the pleasures and tortures that lie between deaths shadow and immortality Surrounded by its brooding swampscape, Blackwood Farm is alive with the comings and goings of the bewitched and the bewitching. Among them is the ageless vampire Lestat, vainglorious enough to believe that he can become a saint, weak enough to fall impossibly in love. Gripped by his unspeakable desire for the mortal Rowan Mayfair and taking the not so innocent, new-to-the-blood Mona Mayfair under his wing, Lestat braves the wrath of paterfamilias Julien Mayfair and ventures to a private island off the coast of Haiti. There, Saint Lestat will get his chance to slay his dragon. For Mona and the Mayfairs share an explosive, secret blood bond to another deathless species: a five-thousand-year-old race of Taltos, strangers held in the throes of evil itself.