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.
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.
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Black horror and speculative fiction have been shaped for decades by works that merge supernatural suspense with historical and social reality, notably through novels like My Soul to Keep and The Good House. Author Tananarive Due has spent over twenty-five years crafting stories that center African American experiences, historical memory, and supernatural horror across novels, short fiction, screenwriting, and academic research.
Born on January 5, 1966, in Tallahassee, Florida, Due grew up in a family deeply involved in civil rights activism; her mother, Patricia Stephens Due, was a prominent activist who served forty-nine days in jail for participating in sit-ins, while her father, John Due, worked as a civil rights attorney. Due earned a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and worked as a feature writer and syndicated columnist for the Miami Herald before earning an M.A. in English literature with an emphasis on Nigerian literature from the University of Leeds as a Rotary Foundation Scholar. She co-authored the civil rights memoir Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights with her mother. In addition to her career as a novelist, Due teaches courses in Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA, including a course on the Black horror aesthetic. Her screenwriting and film work includes serving as executive producer on the documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, co-writing the graphic novel The Keeper with her husband Steven Barnes, writing an episode for Season 2 of Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone, and co-hosting the podcast Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!
Due's fiction integrates themes of grief, trauma, racial injustice, and ancestral memory with elements of cosmic horror, dark fantasy, and supernatural suspense. Her writing draws on childhood experiences of navigating racial tension, grounding supernatural threats in the psychological and social realities faced by Black families. Through short fiction in collections such as Ghost Summer (published as Ghost Summer: Stories) and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, as well as early novels like The Between, she combines precise real-world detail with dark speculative frameworks, exploring how historical violence echoes across generations.
8 books in catalog
Black horror and speculative fiction have been shaped for decades by works that merge supernatural suspense with historical and social reality, notably through novels like My Soul to Keep and The Good House. Author Tananarive Due has spent over twenty-five years crafting stories that center African American experiences, historical memory, and supernatural horror across novels, short fiction, screenwriting, and academic research.
Born on January 5, 1966, in Tallahassee, Florida, Due grew up in a family deeply involved in civil rights activism; her mother, Patricia Stephens Due, was a prominent activist who served forty-nine days in jail for participating in sit-ins, while her father, John Due, worked as a civil rights attorney. Due earned a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and worked as a feature writer and syndicated columnist for the Miami Herald before earning an M.A. in English literature with an emphasis on Nigerian literature from the University of Leeds as a Rotary Foundation Scholar. She co-authored the civil rights memoir Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights with her mother. In addition to her career as a novelist, Due teaches courses in Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA, including a course on the Black horror aesthetic. Her screenwriting and film work includes serving as executive producer on the documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, co-writing the graphic novel The Keeper with her husband Steven Barnes, writing an episode for Season 2 of Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone, and co-hosting the podcast Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!
Due's fiction integrates themes of grief, trauma, racial injustice, and ancestral memory with elements of cosmic horror, dark fantasy, and supernatural suspense. Her writing draws on childhood experiences of navigating racial tension, grounding supernatural threats in the psychological and social realities faced by Black families. Through short fiction in collections such as Ghost Summer (published as Ghost Summer: Stories) and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, as well as early novels like The Between, she combines precise real-world detail with dark speculative frameworks, exploring how historical violence echoes across generations.
African Immortals
African Immortals
