The tale is a love story in verse that begins in early 1900's France. Armand is a handsome and dashing free spirit of aristocratic descent, meets Dominique while students at the Sorbonne, and they soon become lovers. Dominique, a beautiful and bright country girl, is orphaned at age 16 to a vicious vampire attack on her parents and is recruited by the Church to work as one of their clandestine slayers. Only the Bishop with whom she lived for 2 years after her parents' murders, knows of her activities. The newspapers hail her as "the Flame" because of her use of fire, and later explosives, as her weapons of destruction. She conceals her secret identity as well as her haunted past even from Armand. After graduation, she works as a slayer instructor for the Church and is later recruited to work overseas by the French Intelligence Agency. It is during this absense, that Armand is born to darkness under tragic circumstances by the famed vampire Lestat. Upon her return to Paris several years later, when she realizes that Armand is now a vampire, she leaves the country to begin a new life in the United States, rather than face killing the man she still loves.

Book I opens with Armand having tracked down Dominique ten years after their parting, and what follows is the story in flashback. I hope you will enjoy reading the Tales which you can find at http://www.darkpoetry.com/dp/550

 

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