In her new novel, Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative-her vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches-to give us a world of classic Deep South luxury and ancestral secrets. Like her much-loved novel The Witching Hour; Blackwood Farm is a family saga-capturing both the dramas and the subtleties of family as it tells it story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny. It is Anne Rice at her best.