Blood and Gold: The Vampire Chronicles
Anne Rice
The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea who has lived 200 years,
speaks. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone Vampire, who was a Viking in
mortal life. Worlds within world unfold -- historic, fantastic, cultural,
vampiric -- from the London of Henry VIII to 17th century Paris and
Weimar,
as the story moves through a series of climactic episodes to it splendid
finale in an Aegean Kingdom ruled by the great vampire-magician Marius.
This summary is courtesy of McNaughton Books