Part Two takes place at Lestat's concert.

Jesse Reeves, a member of the secret T

alamasca and relative of Maharet, is mortally injured while attending the concer
t, and is taken to Maharet's Sonoma compound where she is made into a vampire. T
he vampires from Part One later congregate in the Sonoma compound. The only vamp
ires not present are Akasha and Lestat. Akasha has abducted Lestat and takes him
as an unwilling consort to various locations in the world, inciting women to ri
se up and kill the men who have oppressed them.
Part Three takes place at Maharet's home in a Sonoma forest. There Maharet tells
the story of Akasha and the red-haired twins (who are, in fact, Maharet and her
sister, Mekare) to Pandora, Jesse, Marius, Santino, Eric, Armand, Daniel, Louis
and Gabrielle. Also present are Mael and Khayman, who already know the story.
For more details on their story, see Maharet and Mekare.
In Part Four, Akasha confronts the gathered vampires at Maharet's compound. Ther
e she explains her plans and offers the vampires a chance to be her "angels" in
her New World Order. Akasha plans to kill 90 percent of the world's human men, a
nd to establish a new Eden in which women will worship Akasha as a goddess. If t
he assembled vampires refuse to follow her, she will destroy them. The vampires
refuse, but before Akasha can destroy them, Mekare enters. Mekare kills Akasha b
y severing her head. Mekare then consumes Akasha's brain and heart, thereby savi
ng the lives of the remaining vampires and becoming the new Queen of the Damned.