The mysterious ancient religion of voodoo, the witchcraft of the Mayfair witches, the mysterious community of vampires... Three seemingly completely different, in no way touching worlds. But in the fate of the heroine of the novel they are intertwined in the most intimate way. Merrick is the heiress of the Candomblé priests, a descendant of one of the branches of the Mayfair family, a pupil of David Talbot, the former Supreme Head of Talamasca, who received the Dark Gift of Immortality from the vampire Lestat himself.