Though Jessica often wonders how her husband heals quickly from injuries, she’s never given the oddity much thought until David falls from a tree with serious injuries, refuses to see a doctor, and HEALS the following morning without any SCARS. He’s been a slave in the 1800s, a jazz musician named Spider in the 1940s, and husband and father many times to mortal women and children. He’s lived and died many times, as DAWIT the immortal. But David has a secret that’s over FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OLD. “ Why, then, did it all feel so temporal? Their life was like a dream, and she’d learned young that dreams always end.”ĭavid, a linguist and jazz historian at the university, decided to put his career on hold to take care of their daughter―an easy decision to make after inheriting money from his family, as he’d told his trusting wife. Will her perfect world crumble around her? But Jessica senses it’s all too good to be true.

JESSICA Wolde, an investigative journalist at the Miami Herald, has everything she’s ever wanted, a dream job, perfect husband, DAVID WOLDE, and a beautiful five-year-old daughter, KIRA. The story revolves around the Wolde family. Though positioned in the HORROR GENRE, I believe it’s a blend of FANTASY, SUPERNATURAL THRILLER, and SUSPENSE told fantastically in the THIRD PERSON POV. The AFRICAN IMMORTALS SERIES caught my attention a few years ago, and finally, I’ve gotten around to reading book one of the four-part series. My Soul to Keep is the second book I’ve read of Tananarive Due, and I love both bo oks. With deft plotting and an unforgettable climax, this tour de force reminiscent of early Anne Rice will win Due a new legion of fans. 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.

Instead, David vows to invoke a forbidden ritual to keep Jessica and his daughter with him forever. Now, his immortal brethren have decided David must return and leave his family in Miami. 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. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever-youthful.

My soul to keep by tananarive due