—The year is 2025. The immortal world hums beneath the surface of the modern one, just as dangerous, just as decadent. Vampires still walk among humans, hidden in plain sight, some driven by hunger, others by the ache of eternity. And in the heart of this secret realm, a miracle has occurred—an impossibility made real by one who never obeyed the laws of gods or monsters.

Paris is quiet at dusk. The Seine glows gold in the last light of day. A figure stands on a balcony high above, wind brushing through long, golden hair. Lestat de Lioncourt, once a prince, always a rebel, watches the world with eyes older than memory. But this night, his thoughts are not of hunger, nor music, nor mortality.

They are of her.

Fourteen years ago, through blood magic, science, and sheer audacity, Lestat dared the impossible—he gave life. Not the false life of the Undead, but true life. A daughter. Mortal. Fragile. His. Her very existence defied the rules of their kind.

And now, the girl stands at the cusp of her own dark destiny.

Bright, fierce, and curious to a fault, she knows what she is—and what she is not. She knows the truth about her father. She’s read the journals, heard the stories, seen the way he looks when the hunger takes him. And she wants it. Immortality. Power. To walk beside him forever, unaging, unafraid.

But Lestat—haunted by the memory of Claudia and the ghost of her fury—refuses.

"Not until you're grown," he says. "Not until you've lived as a human, loved as a human. Not until you choose with a heart that understands what it means to lose it."