The release date for the English version of 'Blood Canticle' by
Anne Rice is Jan 2004. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Returning with a fury, Lestat is completely enslaved to Rowan Mayfair. He wanders among the pantheon of Anne Rice's iconic characters, attracted to slaughter yet lured by kindness. He is both an angel and a demon. His torturer Julien Mayfair; Rowan, a witch and neurosurgeon who summons spirits, casts spells on people, and can't help but be drawn to Lestat; Patsy, a country and western singer who was killed by Quinn Blackwood and disposed of in a swamp; and Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos whose genes are passed down to the Mayfair family. Currently, Lestat battles to free Patsy's spirit from the shadowy Earthbound regions, solve the Taltos' enigma, and determine Rowan Mayfair's destiny. The worlds of Blackwood Farm and the Mayfair Witches, two of Anne Rice's most alluring settings, clash as Lestat torments himself between his thirst for blood and his desire for life, between satisfaction and atonement.