Immortality
By Maggie Shayne
- Release Date: 2022-08-05
- Genre: Paranormal Romance
A CORRUPT LEADER…
Thirteen little girls are sired by a power-hungry king with delusions of grandeur. His actions are guided by self-serving prophets who crave power of their own.
Thirteen little girls are trained to fight, to kill, until only one remains. The survivor will be used as a tool by those in authority, a puppet of her father and his soothsayers.
A STEP TOO FAR…
But when the boy she loves is torn brutally from her life, Puabi will be used no longer. And so begins her rise to power in one ancient Sumerian city-state after another. In her quest for vengeance, she will rip the crown from the head of a corrupt king, and steal the immortality from his heart, even though doing so will cost her very soul.
She is the darkest villain among her kind.
A SPARK OF HOPE…
And yet, there is hope for redemption, even for one as evil as she. All but dead, she is swept from the coast of Maine, where she pitched her burned body into the sea, to a small, private island where a man pulls finds her washed up and does his best to nurse her back to health…all the while wondering how it is she looks so much like his dead wife.
But there's a connection between the two, and a new life about to begin.