True magic of that kind doesn’t exist, but I can do things that may appear magic to someone slightly more tethered to their mortality. I’m neither, if those positions are defined by any kind of supernormal magical power. “…if your next question is, what could that possibly make me, if I’m not an angel or a god? The answer is the same as what I said before: many have considered me a god, and probably a few have thought of me as an angel. If he can find it, he might be able to do what the red-haired woman did, and if he can do that, maybe he can find her again and ask her who she is…and why she seems to hate him.From the pages of the Immortal book series, it’s Eve.
The question was how did she do it? To answer, Adam will have to complete a quest he gave up on a thousand years earlier, for an object that may no longer exist. In his last encounter, she actually did vanish – into thin air, right in front of him. She appeared throughout history, usually from a distance, nearly always vanishing before he could speak to her. In his very long life, Adam had encountered only one person who seemed to share his longevity: the mysterious red-haired woman. And maybe have a drink or two.īook three: Immortal at the Edge of the World To survive, he’s going to have to figure out what a beautiful ex-government analyst, an eco-terrorist, a rogue FBI agent, and the world’s oldest religious cult all want with him, and fast.Īnd all he wanted when he came to Vegas was to forget about a girl. In an artful blending of sci-fi, adventure, fantasy, and humor, Immortal introduces us to a world with vampires, demons, and other “magical” creatures, yet a world without actual magic.Īn oracle has predicted the sojourner’s end, which is a problem for Adam insofar as he has never encountered an oracular prediction that didn’t come true…and he is the sojourner. Immortal is a first person confessional penned by a man who is immortal, but not invincible. Worst of all, he has had entirely too much to drink. But in the twenty-first century, Adam confronts new dangers – someone has found out what he is, a demon is after him, and he has run out of places to hide. Surviving sixty thousand years takes cunning and more than a little luck. The first three books in the Immortal Series, in one box set!
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