Tananarive Due Tananarive Due is the author of The
Black Rose, My Soul to Keep (one of the Publishers Weekly
Best Novels of the Year in 1997), and The Between, and was a
collaborator on the bestselling novel Naked Came the
Manatee. Her short fiction was included in the
groundbreaking Dark Matter, an anthology of African-American
science fiction and fantasy. A two-time finalist for the
Bram Stoker Award, the former Miami Herald columnist lives
in Washington state with her husband, novelist Steven
Barnes. The Living
Blood Jessica Jacobs-Wolde worked hard to
rebuild her life in Miami after the disappearance of her
husband, David, and the death of her daughter Kira at his
hand. Four years later, she is still coming to terms with a
shocking truth: David, who is part of an ancient group of
immortals-a hidden African clan that has survived for
more than a thousand years-gave Jessica and their
second daughter, Fana, the gift of his healing
blood. Now Jessica is running an isolated
clinic in Botswana-one that has swiftly earned a
reputation for its astounding success rate in curing
desperately ill children-and she hopes to find the
tribe of souls with whom Fana truly belongs. Just three and
a half years old, the girl is displaying signs of tremendous
power-conjuring storms, editing her mother's
memories, and striking people down with a thought. Her
growing abilities need to be tamed-and soon. Already
Fana's dreams are haunted by a shadowy entity,
someone-or something--she can only call the Bee
Lady. Unaware that they are being tracked
by Lucas Shepard, a doctor from Florida who hopes to save
his dying son, and by a group of fortune hunters who will
stop at nothing to exploit the power coursing through her
veins, Jessica journeys to Ethiopia in search of the Life
Brothers. There, she will be reunited with her immortal
beloved. There, the full force of Fana's powers will be
revealed. And there, Jessica, David, Fana, and the good
doctor Shepard, though himself a mere mortal, will engage in
an epic and transcontinental battle over the ultimate fate
of humanity. Blending the supernatural with a
thrilling vision of our times, this is a powerful and
sweeping tale of love, horror, immortality, and redemption
from an astounding storyteller. Acclaimed for her riveting fiction,
which tests the boundaries of supernatural suspense,
Tananarive Due returns with a gloriously imagined tale of an
ancient cult's undying powers-now embodied by a child
who can grow to become either monster or savior. "Stunning...an event of sustained
power and energy....This novel...should set a standard for
supernatural thrillers of the new millennium
.One of
the best and most significant novelists of her
generation." -Peter Straub,
author of Mr. X and Ghost Story "Smart, soulful, crafty Tananarive
Due deserves the attention of everyone interested in
contemporary American fiction. In The Living Blood, this
young writer opens up realms of experience that add to our
storehouse of shared reality, and by doing so widens our
common vision." -Tina McElroy
Ansa "Due has started this series with a
pair of rich, exciting novels. If we're lucky, it will go on
forever." -San Jose
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