I realized today that I forgot to update my blog about the completion of my new science fiction novel, The Immortality Virus. I finished the book in November and am now shopping it around.
The Immortality Virus is set in a world in which humanity has stopped growing old thanks to an unknown change that occured in the mid-21st century. The world is overpopulated and warring factions have split the United States into local and regional city-states. No one has learned what caused The Change. Many cling to their near immortality and are unwilling to let anyone else find a way to undo it.
Grace Harper, a blacklisted PI, is among thsoe who feel The Change was a bad idea. There isn’t much she can do about this until one of the richest men in Kansas City, Matt Stanton, asks her to find the man he believes started it all.
I enjoyed writing this book a great deal. It’s more action-packed than anything I’ve written before and Grace will find herself in a great deal of danger. But I still like to write strong characters, and Grace is that. She is a lonely woman afraid to connect with others, who outwardly does not feel she needs anyone else. During this story, she finds herself reunitd with an old lover she has tried to forget and she meets a new man — someone else she might be able to love if she let herself. Which will she choose? I wasn’t sure myself until the final draft.