Larger	Merrick (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 7) (Large Print) Author: Anne Rice
	Book Information Publisher: Random House Large Print Book Type: Hardcover Large Print: Yes Members Wishing: 0 Rating: 12 ISBN-13: 9780375430770 - ISBN-10: 0375430776 Publication Date: 10/17/2000 Pages: 544

At the center is the beautiful, unconquerable witch, Merrick. She is a descendant of the gens de colors libres, a cast derived from the black mistresses of white men, a society of New Orleans octaroons and quadroons, steeped in the lore and ceremony of voodoo, who reign in the shadowy world where the African and the French--the white and the dark--intermingle. Her ancestors are the Great Mayfair Witches, of whom she knows nothing--and from whom she inherits the power and magical knowledge of a Circe.

Into this exotic New Orleans realm comes David Talbot, hero, storyteller, adventurer, almost mortal vampire, visitor from another dark realm. It is he who recounts Merrick's haunting tale--a tale that takes us from the New Orleans of the past and present to the jungles of Guatemala, from the Mayan ruins of a century ago to ancient civilizations not yet explored.