Awakening

Life is good. Immortal by pure mischance, Nico has moved through the world for centuries with carefree ease, mastering skills, moving on before anyone notices he doesn't age.

Then he sees Elly. Their minds open to one another, two inner worlds suddenly and completely revealed. She witnesses the exact moment his love for her begins. If only she were immortal.

He already knows how it ends. Elly will age. She will die and he will remain. Alone. The thought becomes an obsession, driving a search no philosopher or physician has ever solved.

Elly invites Prim, her close friend, to join them. What the three find together is tender and joyful. A golden summer under canvas, travelling the roads of Roman Britannia, with a happiness so complete it aches.

When their lives are threatened, Nico's rage tears reality open. He has burned in Tartarus in torment no mortal could survive.

It is a story about what it means to love someone with a shorter lifespan than your own, about finding a family you didn't know you needed, and about what happens to an Immortal man when the people he loves are threatened.

There is warmth, comedy and terror in equal measure, and sometimes, without warning, in the same breath. A long golden afternoon with occasional storms.

Awakening is the first book in the Vanishing Age trilogy, three complete novels totalling over 360,000 words, where the ancient and the impossible meet romance, fantasy and the good life. Books Two and Three, Odyssey and Eternal, complete the story.