Walker, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. The Black Rose, based on the life of business pioneer Madam C.J. The Good House was nominated as Best Novel by the International Horror Guild. The Living Blood, which received a 2002 American Book Award, 'should set the standard for supernatural thrillers of the new millennium,' said Publishers Weekly, which named The Living Blood and My Soul to Keep among the best novels of the year. Publishers Weekly called Casanegra 'seamlessly entertaining.' In the Night of the Heat, is the second in the series. Due and Barnes published Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel, which they wrote in collaboration with actor Blair Underwood. Her most recent novel, Blood Colony (2008), is the long-awaited sequel to her 2001 thriller The Living Blood and 1997’s My Soul to Keep, a reader favorite that Stephen King said 'bears favorable comparison to Interview with the Vampire.'ĭue also collaborates with her husband, novelist and screen-writer Steven Barnes. Tananarive Due-pronounced tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo-is the American Book Award-winning author of nine books, ranging from supernatural thrillers to a mystery to a civil rights memoir. Currently-lives in Southern California, USA.Education-B.A., Northwestern (USA) M.A., University of.This is the first book in Due's African Immortals series, followed by The Living Blood (2002) and Blood Colony (2008). With deft plotting and an unforgettable climax, this tour de force reminiscent of early Anne Rice will win Due a new legion of fans. Harrowing, engrossing and skillfully rendered, My Soul to Keep traps Jessica between the desperation of immortals who want to rob her of her life and a husband who wants to rob her of her soul. Instead, David vows to invoke a forbidden ritual to keep Jessica and his daughter with him forever. Now, his immortal brethren have decided David must return and leave his family in Miami. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach.

When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful.

My Soul to Keep (Immortal Brethren series #1)

My soul to keep by tananarive due