My Soul to Keep

Written by Tananarive Due

Narrated by Peter Francis James

The award-winning master of horror, acclaimed author, screenwriter, and scholar Tananarive Due’s classic African Immortals series starts with an electrifying piece of dark fantasy, My Soul to Keep.

When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost. Now, his immortal brethren have decided David must return and leave his family in Miami. Instead, David vows to invoke a forbidden ritual to keep Jessica and his daughter with him forever.

Harrowing, engrossing and skillfully rendered, My Soul to Keep traps Jessica between the desperation of immortals who want to rob her of her life and a husband who wants to rob her of her soul. With deft plotting and an unforgettable climax, this tour de force that Stephen King called "an eerie epic" is sure to win Due a legion of new fans.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9781980094418

Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, The Good House, and The Reformatory. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, coauthored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She is married to author Steven Barnes, with whom she collaborates on screenplays. They live with their son, Jason. 

Reviews for My Soul to Keep

[Alante · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Great story BUT The narrator left much to be desired. He was so dry and monotone. But that's not the worse part...the worse part is I could literally hear him swallow spit every few sentences. It was a bit off-putting. But I did enjoy the story even though the narrator had an extremely watery mouth ?

[Stephanie Strong Ranco · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Why on earth is this book narrated by a white man? I can not get past it.

[Michael DiNapoli · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Man, I hated every character. Haha, I had to really think on that to be sure I wasn't just being shitty but no, they're just... nope. Jessica is annoying and self centered and David has multiple personalities by choice (spoiler: they're all awful). Her sister, her colleague? Lol, c'mon man. The premise is amazing! But sheesh, I really did not like any of the characters! This might be a first for me. The writing is great, I loved The Good House by Ms. Due along with her short stories, so she's amazing on a whole so I don't know why I couldn't connect with these people.