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

“Hello, Giuseppe,” he said, “Marco here. Can you come to our apartment? There’s something here that we need to talk about. … Thanks.”


Marco looked at me. “I can hardly believe what we’re looking at. This guy was so arrogant that he arranged for two abductions and murders via e-mail, and his computer isn’t even password protected.”


“Your grandmother did refer to him as her ‘ignorant son’.”


There was a knock on the door to the suite. I went to it and found Giuseppe waiting in the corridor. “Come in,” I said. “Marco has something to show you.”


I led him to where the computer was, and Marco showed him the very incriminating e-mails.


Chapter 57