{"product_id":"blood-and-gold","title":"Blood and Gold","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER •\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Vampire Chronicles continue as the great vampire Marius returns. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti-\u003cbr\u003e mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, kidnapped and made a “blood god” by the Druids, Marius becomes the embittered protector of Akasha and Enkil, Queen and King of the vampires, in whom the core of the supernatural race resides.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We follow him through his heartbreaking abandonment of the vampire Pandora. Through him we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine and the horrific sack of the Eternal City itself at the hands of the Visigoths. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bravely, Marius seeks a new civilization in the midst of glittering Constantinople, only to meet with the blood drinker Eudoxia. We see him ultimately returning to his beloved Italy, where after the horrors of the Black Death, he is restored by the beauty of the Renaissance. We see him become a painter living dangerously \u003cbr\u003e yet happily among mortals, giving his heart to the great Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Moving from Rome to Florence, Venice, and Dresden, and to the English castle of the secret scholarly order of the Talamasca, the novel reaches its dramatic finale in our own time, deep in the jungle where Marius, having told his life story, seeks some measure of justice from the oldest vampires in the world.","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48155186266367,"sku":"*R0061050*","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/24961053482429.jpg?v=1770829589","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/blood-and-gold","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}