I picked this up without expecting much. I was pleasantly surprised, and couldn't put it down. Luke is an emergency room doctor in Northern Maine. In the last few years he lost his wife and children when she divorced him. Both of his parents have recently passed away and he is just surviving. Late one night Lanore is brought in by the local police, suspected for murder. When she tells him her unbelievable story of her life as an immortal. Most of the book shows her journey, and that of her friends over the last two hundred years. The ending catches us all up to the present, and leaves with a final twist pretty much guaranteeing I'll pick up the second book right now!