Blood and Gold

Anne Rice

Jan 2001 · Vampire Chronicles Book 8 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Roger Rees

About this audiobook

“RICE WRITES WITH HER USUAL EROTIC AND HISTORICALLY EVOCATIVE FLAIR.”
–People

Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires–in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the horrific sack of the Eternal City at the hands of the Visigoths, and the vile aftermath of the Black Death. Ultimately restored by the beauty of the Renaissance, Marius becomes a painter, living dangerously yet happily among mortals, and giving his heart to the great master Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand. But it is in the present day, deep in the jungle, when Marius will meet his fate seeking justice from the oldest vampires in the world. . . .

About the author

Anne Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941. She is the author of many bestselling novels, including the widely successful Vampire Chronicles. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, was made into a film in 1994 starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Her other books include the Mayfair Witches series, the novels The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Violin, Angel Time, the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, and, most recently, the Wolf Gift Chronicles series. Anne lives and works in Southern California.

Roger Rees was a Welsh actor. He was a recipient of Olivier and Tony Awards for his starring role in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, as well as Obie Awards for The End of the Day and as codirector of Peter and the Starcatcher. He was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2015.