From her best-selling and iconic vampire novels to her enthusiastic embrace of Christianity, Anne Rice's personal journey has taken her from erotic tales, to vampires, and Jesus Christ.
With the release of Angel Time next week, Anne Rice spins a thriller about angels, which she believes are God's evidence of his love for human beings.
The novel opens in the present and returns to Rice's stomping grounds in New Orleans. At its center is Toby O'Dare, a contract killer of underground fame on assignment to kill once again. Into O'Dare's nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions comes a mysterious stranger, a seraph, who offers him a chance to save rather than destroy lives. O'Dare seizes his chance and is carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England encountering angels and demons that help and torment him.
"Toby is a character who gives his life to God and works for the angels. In my earlier books, I never had the courage to put someone on the side of the angels," Rice said.
"I've always been interested in these powerful messengers from heaven who can intervene in our lives on behalf of the Almighty, and I've always been fascinated by peoples' stories of their experiences with angels," Rice added. "I try to give my version of what they would be like interacting with us on earth."
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