The Secret Lives of Immortals

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Publishing March 2, 2027 ✴︎ Bookshop.org US or UK

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Praise for The Secret Lives of Immortals

Entrancing as a fairy tale. If you loved The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, you’ll fall hard for The Secret Lives of Immortals.

Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six

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Sharply-written, incisive, and true, The Secret Lives of Immortals is an ode to modernity by way of tradition, a clear-eyed examination of the forces that shape us across time, culture, and distance. Brilliant.

Shen Tao, author of The Poet Empress

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Through this centuries-spanning love story, Huang weaves in a crucial question: who gets to wield power, and why? An insightful exploration of love, mortality, and the seductive nature of good intentions, The Secret Lives of Immortals asks whether living forever teaches us how to live, or just makes us blind to the reality of being human.

Sunyi Dean, author of The Book Eaters and The Girl with a Thousand Faces

An exquisite tale of sorcery and power, and a centuries-spanning love story.

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He Ling is many things—storyteller, poet, con woman. She’s also lived for a very long time.

From the courts of Imperial China to the bloody gladiatorial pits of Rome, she’s witnessed the rise and fall of civilizations, embarked on great adventures, mourned the fleeting lives of her friends. Still, she can’t help but remember the one who came before all else: Quintus, the Roman mercenary who tricked her into immortal life. The only man she’s ever loved, and the one who haunts her still.

Now, after centuries apart, Quintus returns just as she has started to carve out a life of her own. As her past and present collide, Ling must answer the question that has chased her for eternity: for immortals like them, is forever a promise, or a curse?

The Secret Lives of Immortals is a genre-defying work of speculative fiction that will take you on a journey of infinite lifetimes.

Regarding rights, please contact Hana El Niwairi at CookeMcDermid.

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Or, Bookshop.org US or UK

Photos from my archive and Unsplash (Mohammad Aqhib and Jahanzeb Ahsan).

Cover design by Ella Garrett.

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