Eternal youth is a wonderful thing for the few who have it, but for Miriam Blaylock, it is a curse -- an existence marred by death and sorrow. Because for the everlasting Miriam, everyone she loves withers and dies. Now, haunted by signs of her adoring husband's imminent demise, Miriam sets out in serach of a new partner, one who can quench her thirst for love and withstand the test of time. She finds it in the beautiful Sarah Roberts, a brilliant young scientist who may hold the secret to immortality. But one thing stands between the intoxicating Miriam Blaylock and the object of her desire: Dr. Tom Haver...and he's about to realize that love and death to hand in hand.

Whitley Strieber became a novelist with the publication of The Wolfen in 1980. Since then, he has published over 30 books of fiction and non-fiction. His books The Wolfen, The Hunger, Communion and Superstorm have all been made into films. (Superstorm as The Day After Tomorrow.) His website, Unknowncountry.com is among the largest in the world dealing with paranormal phenomena and his podcast, Dreamland, has been produced weekly for 20 years.