Book Spotlight: The Last King by A. Yamina Collins
Synopsis: The Last King - A. Yamina Collins - December 2013
Twenty-eight year Emmy Hughes has never quite fit in---she's six feet
tall, dark-skinned, and daydreams of being Galadriel from Lord of the
Rings. But when she is badly injured in a car accident that kills her
mother, Emmy does not dream of fantastical worlds anymore---she just
wants her shattered life to be normal again.
Unfortunately,
normalcy is the last thing in store for her once she meets Lake
George's newest arrival, Dr. Gilead Knightly. Granted immortality from a
line of people whose Great Ancestor marched into the Garden of Eden and
ate from the Tree of Life, Gilead has been alive for centuries and has
met everyone from Nubian kings to Napoleon.
But Gilead
and his eccentric family are also hunted beings because God considers
the Edenites' possession of immortality to be theft. And for thousands
of years He has dealt with their transgression by sending each of them a
"Glitch" ---an unsuspecting human meant to retrieve this stolen
"property" of immortality and kill them off.
When Emmy
discovers that she is Gilead's Glitch, she is not only thrown into a
world of immortals who eat bone marrow, panthers who read minds, and a
family whose blood is made of pulsing gold, but she finds herself the
target of Gilead's vengeance: he must get rid of her before she gets rid
of him.
Easier said than done. Because Glitches are not only an Edenite's greatest threat---they're also their greatest love.
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