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"An eerie epic. I loved this novel." -- Stephen King
The award-winning master of horror, acclaimed author, screenwriter, and scholar Tananarive Due’s classic African Immortals series starts with an electrifying piece of dark fantasy, My Soul to Keep.
When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost. Now, his immortal brethren have decided David must return and leave his family in Miami. Instead, David vows to invoke a forbidden ritual to keep Jessica and his daughter with him forever.
Harrowing, engrossing and skillfully rendered, My Soul to Keep traps Jessica between the desperation of immortals who want to rob her of her life and a husband who wants to rob her of her soul. With deft plotting and an unforgettable climax, this tour de force that Stephen King called 'An eerie epic' is sure to win Due a legion of new fans.
David is everything Jessica ever wanted-striking, intense; oddly, he seems at once youthful and ageless. And while he is her husband, the father of her child, and the man she should know most intimately, something about him is always just out of reach. It is only after the people closest to Jessica begin dying brutally-and mysteriously-that Jessica begins to realize the full extent of what David is hiding. Shocking, engrossing, and brilliantly precise, My Soul To Keep spans hundreds of years in the -life' of David, an immortal man who sacrificed his soul so he would never die. Since the fifteenth century, David has traveled the world keeping his secrets and never stopping long. But for the first time, David has found himself wanting the benefits of humanity that his immortality has never allowed-a wife, a home, watching his child grow up-and he will do anything to protect himself from prying eyes that might jeopardize that. After murdering his wife's best friend, a solution to his loneliness suddenly presents itself to him, and he begins experimenting with the ritual that made him immortal in the hopes of using it on his wife and child. When, in horror, Jessica discovers David's plans, and David's brothers in immortality reveal that they will stop at nothing to prevent David from breaking his covenant of secrecy, Jessica finds she has nowhere to run from the monsters who want to rob her of her life and the husband who wants to rob her of her soul. With the brilliant plotting and shocking climax that Due has come to be known for, this is a tour de force that will win her a new legion of fans.
