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

“It’s early, but you sound ready for bed.”


THE NEXT MORNING, we were up, dressed, and sipping coffee on the terrace by seven. “I don’t know when I’ve been this relaxed,” I said.


“Or slept that soundly,” Dani said.


“Have you thought about when you want to go home and pack?”


“The sooner the better—I’m ready to go to work.”


“Me, too. What say we visit your grandmother as soon as we can, and go home right after that?”


“I’ll need to go to Florida while we’re in the States.”


“Yeah, I hadn’t forgotten about your mother.”


“I wonder if I should arrange to bring her here?”


“I can’t answer that, babe, but consider this: she’s comfortable where she is, she’s well cared for, and most of the time she doesn’t know that you exist. Why disrupt her life?”


Chapter 34