In this life, you are guaranteed nothing. Suppose you age one year for every five years you live and are immune to disease and infirmaries of age. What would you do? How would you live? – and at 174 years old, you discover that someone wants you dead.
Julia Desjardins—wounded during the 1864 Civil War Battle at Monocacy Junction in Maryland—is just fourteen and an orphan. She learns from the healer and seer Sister Sojourner Smith why she recovered quickly from this grievous wound and that she has a rare gift: She will age just one year physically for every five years she lives and is immune to disease and the infirmaries of aging.
Now, one hundred and seventy-four years later, Julia, now calling herself Julienne Gardener, discovers that another of these rare humans (called Amaranthines) desperately wants what she has been seeking for more than four lifetimes: A secret elixir that will grant long lifetimes to humanity—and Julienne also realizes that it all must be destroyed due to the chaos it would cause if revealed. She fears and realizes that immortality is not a gift but a curse.
Genre: Historical Mystery
Julia Desjardins—wounded during the 1864 Civil War Battle at Monocacy Junction in Maryland—is just fourteen and an orphan. She learns from the healer and seer Sister Sojourner Smith why she recovered quickly from this grievous wound and that she has a rare gift: She will age just one year physically for every five years she lives and is immune to disease and the infirmaries of aging.
Now, one hundred and seventy-four years later, Julia, now calling herself Julienne Gardener, discovers that another of these rare humans (called Amaranthines) desperately wants what she has been seeking for more than four lifetimes: A secret elixir that will grant long lifetimes to humanity—and Julienne also realizes that it all must be destroyed due to the chaos it would cause if revealed. She fears and realizes that immortality is not a gift but a curse.
Genre: Historical Mystery