The Queen of the Damned

The third book in the bestselling Vampire Chronicles ..

After 6000 years of horrifying stillness, Akasha, mother of all vampires and Queen of the Damned, has risen from her sleep to let loose the powers of the night.

But her monstrous plan for ruling the worlds of the living and the undead must be stopped before she destroys her vampire children and mankind, and it falls on the vampire Lestat to fight her all-encompassing evil — for it is he who challenged her power by waking her from sleep. --back cover