My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, #1)

by Tananarive Due

“But, heck, James Baldwin went to France. All the writers go to France. Maybe it’s a rite of passage for you.”

My name is DAH-weet. I was bom in what is now called Ethiopia nearly five hundred years ago. I am an immortal. There are fifty-eight others like me. Our blood lives forever, and our bodies heal. We do not age. We were not bom this way, and our condition is not genetic. We underwent a Ritual.