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

Saturday evening, Marco, Luciano, and I dined with la Contessain her apartment. She asked Marco and Luciano a number of questions concerning their daylong meeting with Alessandro, and conversation finally gravitated to the subject that was uppermost in my mind


“Danilo,” she said, “how are you doing with the wine cellar?”


“According to my contact in Boston, the easiest way to turn the cellar into cash would be through one of the major auction houses. Even though a great deal of quick cash might be raised at a sale of ‘the entire cellar of an Italian Conte’, I’m not sure the attendant publicity would be good.”


“Do you want the world to think that il Conte di Contiis in financial trouble?”


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