When Jessica marries David he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant attentive ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. 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. Now his immortal brethren have decided David must return and leave his family in Miami. Instead David vows to invoke a forbidden ritual to keep Jessica and his daughter with him forever. 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. With deft plotting and an unforgettable climax this tour de force reminiscent of early Anne Rice will win Due a new legion of fans.