Could you handle living forever, knowing you would watch your friends grow old and die?<br><br>These are questions newly minted Doctor Marco Sartori d’Argenzio must face when he and his partner Danilo Rosati celebrate Marco’s completed residency and Danilo’s most recent PhD with a vacation at Marco’s father’s home in the Duchy of Aragoni. There Marco learns about his family’s legacy: his father is more than two thousand years old, and he can expect to live just as long.<br><br>Marco inherits his uncle’s title amidst adventure and danger, but it breaks his heart to realize that he’ll live only to see the man he’s loved for a decade grow old and die. However, there is hope: Danilo is studying the unique DNA of Marco’s family in hops of discovering the secret -- because Danilo has no intention of leaving Marco alone for what could be forever.

The Path to Forever

“You claim a chair by dropping your robe and towel on it,” Trevor said. “Beverage service is available, but only around the pool—drinking in the pool is not permitted.”


He slipped out of his robe and shoes, tossed the robe and his towel onto a nearby lounge chair, and headed toward the pool. We followed suit. The pool was fair sized—perhaps twenty feet wide by at least forty feet long—and was already occupied by a dozen people of both sexes. There were built-in tile benches around the perimeter. When you sat on them, you were submerged to various levels, depending upon body height. The water came up to our necks, but Trevor’s nipples showed just above the surface when he sat down.


“As you walk toward the center of the pool, it gets much deeper,” he said.


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