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Louis de Pointe du Lac has spent nearly eighty years moving through the modern world-immortal, experienced, and still haunted by New Orleans. When fate drags him back home, it's supposed to be simple: a final sacrament for what's left of his mortal bloodline.
It doesn't stay simple.
Old magic stirs in familiar streets, the past sharpens into a confrontation with Armand, and-because New Orleans never allows quiet endings-Lestat chooses Mardi Gras to stage a massive concert that turns the city into a glittering fever dream of music and temptation.
But beneath the beads, brass bands, and celebration, something darker is taking root: a vampire cult with an ancient connection, recruiting in the shadows and shifting the city's supernatural balance.
Louis is pulled into the hunt not because he wants to be... but because the threat is real, the history is personal, and no one knows New Orleans-its churches, cemeteries, alleys, and secrets-better than Louis de Pointe du Lac.
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