Pandora New Tales of the Vampires Author:Anne Rice Anne Rice gives us Pandora, the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. — The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded cafe, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever mad... more »e by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life through the ages.
Pandora carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, where she meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, light-hearted, still-mortal Marius. She is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. We then follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together.« less