The Oagenn: Turning the Tide - Hardcover

by Paul L. Sasser (Author), Annie Jenkinson (Editor)

He has worn the same young face for three hundred years. Now his brother has taken the one thing he cannot outlive.

In 1935, Nathanael Livanos passes for a man in his thirties. He is one of the Ốẚḡenn - a seafaring people who age a single year for every ten that pass - and for three centuries he has hidden in plain sight as a sea captain on the South Carolina coast, guarding a secret men have killed for: a ring of terrible power, one of four scattered across the world.

His immortal brother has wanted that ring since the night Nathanael took his eye. He no longer answers to the name they shared as boys. He is El-Jy'een now, and when darkness falls he leaves his own body to hunt as a black jaguar. To force the bargain he has always craved, he seizes Nathanael's son - and names his ransom.

Nathanael gathers the few he trusts: his wife, an aging Lowcountry lawyer, and a Gullah guide who knows every bend of the black-water rivers. Together they mount a desperate rescue through the marshes and ruined rice fields of the Carolina coast, then sail across the Atlantic toward a blind Oracle who alone knows what the ring is truly for.

What she reveals is worse than losing a son, and older than his brother.

Sweeping from a great earthquake to a killing hurricane, from Lowcountry rivers to the wild edges of the Old World, The Ốẚḡenn: Turning the Tide is an epic historical fantasy for readers of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth and Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind - a story of family, faith, and endurance, and of a man with everything to lose and all the time in the world to lose it.