Tananarive Due Books In Order

African Immortals Books In Order

  1. My Soul to Keep (1997)
  2. The Living Blood (2001)
  3. Blood Colony (2008)
  4. My Soul to Take (2011)

Tennyson Hardwick Books In Order

  1. Casanegra (2007)
  2. In the Night of the Heat (2008)
  3. From Cape Town with Love (2010)
  4. South by Southeast (2012)

Devil’s Wake Books In Order

  1. Devil’s Wake (2012)
  2. Domino Falls (2013)

Novels

  1. The Between (1995)
  2. Naked Came the Manatee (1997)
  3. The Black Rose (2000)
  4. The Good House (2003)
  5. Joplin’s Ghost (2005)

Collections

  1. The Ancestors (2008)
  2. Ghost Summer (2015)
  3. Whose Future Is It? (2018)

Novellas

  1. The Lake (2011)

Non fiction

  1. Freedom in the Family (2003)

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Tananarive Due Books Overview

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 himis 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 reminiscent of early Anne Rice will win Due a new legion of fans.

The Living Blood

Acclaimed for her riveting fiction, which tests the boundaries of supernatural suspense, Tananarive Due returns with a gloriously imagined tale of an ancient cult’s undying powers now embodied by a child who can grow to become either monster or savior. The Living Blood Jessica Jacobs Wolde worked hard to rebuild her life in Miami after the disappearance of her husband, David, and the death of her daughter Kira at his hand. Four years later, she is still coming to terms with a shocking truth: David, who is part of an ancient group of immortals a hidden African clan that has survived for more than a thousand years gave Jessica and their second daughter, Fana, the gift of his healing blood. Now Jessica is running an isolated clinic in Botswana one that has swiftly earned a reputation for its astounding success rate in curing desperately ill children and she hopes to find the tribe of souls with whom Fana truly belongs. Just three and a half years old, the girl is displaying signs of tremendous power conjuring storms, editing her mother’s memories, and striking people down with a thought. Her growing abilities need to be tamed and soon. Already Fana’s dreams are haunted by a shadowy entity, someone or something she can only call the Bee Lady. Unaware that they are being tracked by Lucas Shepard, a doctor from Florida who hopes to save his dying son, and by a group of fortune hunters who will stop at nothing to exploit the power coursing through her veins, Jessica journeys to Ethiopia in search of the Life Brothers. There, she will be reunited with her immortal beloved. There, the full force of Fana’s powers will be revealed. And there, Jessica, David, Fana, and the good doctor Shepard, though himself a mere mortal, will engage in an epic and transcontinental battle over the ultimate fate of humanity. Blending the supernatural with a thrilling vision of our times, this is a powerful and sweeping tale of love, horror, immortality, and redemption from an astounding storyteller.

Blood Colony

Acclaimed for seven novels, ranging from supernatural thrillers to historical fiction, which have garnered her a multitude of fans and awards, Tananarive Due now imagines the story of an ancient group of immortals a hidden African clan that has survived for more than a thousand years facing one of the most challenging issues of our time: the AIDS/HIV pandemic.

There’s a new drug on the street: Glow. Said to heal almost any illness, it is distributed by an Underground Railroad of drug peddlers. But what gives Glow its power? Its main ingredient is blood the blood of immortals. A small but powerful colony of immortals is distributing the blood, slowly wiping out the AIDS epidemic and other diseases around the world.

Meet Fana Wolde, seventeen years old, the only immortal born with the Living Blood. She can read minds, and her injuries heal immediately. When her best friend, a mortal, is imprisoned by Fana’s family, Fana helps her escape and together they run away from Fana’s protected home in Washington State to join the Underground Railroad.

But Fana has more than her parents to worry about: Glow peddlers are being murdered by a violent, hundred year old sect with ties to the Vatican. Now, when Fana is most vulnerable, she is being hunted to fulfill an ancient blood prophecy that could lead to countless deaths.

While her people search for Fana and race to unravel the unknown sect’s mysterious origins, Fana must learn to confront the deadly forces or she and everyone she loves will die.

Casanegra

Casanegra follows the adventures of Tennyson Hardwick, a gorgeous, sexy actor and former gigolo, living on the fringes of the good life in Hollywood. This story, which chronicles the redemption of a prodigal son, combines the glamour of Hollywood with the seedy hopelessness of the inner city. In this hot and steamy mystery, Tennyson struggles to hang on to his acting career and redeem his sex for pay history, which estranged him from his family especially his father, a decorated LAPD captain who raised Tennyson to call him ‘sir.’ Now, in the wake of his father’s sudden stroke, Tennyson has to save himself from taking the fall for the first murder of a female rapper. In the process he discovers his hidden talents the hard way.

In the Night of the Heat

Award winning actor and author Blair Underwood joins forces with two amazing and award winning authors Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes to deliver the second installation in the stunning and provocative Tennyson Hardwick novel In the Night of the Heat. Threatened with death after acquittal for murder, football superstar T. D. Jackson asks struggling actor and former gigolo Tennyson Hardwick for protection. Tennyson has a reputation in Hollywood after solving the murder of rapper Afrodite, but politely turns Jackson down: His acting career is taking off with a new series, and he’s trying to work out his personal life after a series of wrong turns. But Tennyson’s life is upturned when his seedy past catches up to him on the set of his TV series. Then T. D. Jackson is found dead in his home, the victim of an apparent suicide. T.D.’s gorgeous cousin, Melanie, is sure the superstar was murdered, and Jackson’s family offers Tennyson an irresistible fee to discover the truth. But prying into T. D. Jackson’s death means answering the question that divided a nation and destroyed a film star and a football icon’s life and career: Did T. D. Jackson kill his wife? When the investigation takes an unexpected turn toward the governor’s mansion and a long forgotten football game in the segregated South of the 1960s, Tennyson uncovers secrets tearing at the heart of two dynasties and must rely on all of his assets his actor’s heart, deadly hands, profiler’s mind, and every other part of his body to keep from dying next.

From Cape Town with Love

THE AWARD WINNING AUTHORS OF CASANEGRA AND IN THE NIGHT OF THE HEAT TEAM UP FOR A THIRD TIME TO PRESENT From Cape Town with Love, A TENNYSON HARDWICK NOVEL. Actor turned detective Tennyson Hardwick has solved two high profile deaths in Hollywood, but nothing has prepared him for a race to save a child’s life. Tennyson s past in the sex game cost him his new girlfriend, and he brings her to Cape Town, South Africa a scenic film destination and playground for the rich to try to win her back. There Tennyson is hired as a bodyguard by superstar Sofia Maitlin when she visits an orphanage to adopt an African child. Months later, Maitlin offers Tennyson one of Hollywood s hottest tickets a job as a bodyguard at adopted daughter Nandi s A list celebrity birthday party. But the party is over before it begins. When Nandi s birthday goes dreadfully wrong, it s up to a guilt ridden Tennyson to save a child s life and reunite a Hollywood family. But how? He can t go to the police, the FBI has threatened to arrest him, and Big Brother is monitoring his telephone calls. To find Nandi, Tennyson will have to rely on tips from his father a retired LAPD captain and a mysterious woman from his past, Marsha, who has already proven she can t be trusted. His strongest lead is a deadly knife fighter known only as Spider. When his search for the missing child crosses Marsha s covert investigation into a criminal gang with ties to South Africa, Tennyson knows that finding Nandi might cost him his freedom or his life.

The Between

When Hilton was just a boy, his grandmother sacrificed her life to save him from drowning. Thirty years later, he begins to suspect that he was never meant to survive that accident, and that dark forces are working to rectify that mistake. When Hilton’s wife, the only elected African American judge in Dade County, FL, begins to receive racist hate mail, he becomes obsessed with protecting his family. Soon, however, he begins to have horrible nightmares, more intense and disturbing than any he has ever experienced. Are the strange dreams trying to tell him something? His sense of reality begins to slip away as he battles both the psychotic threatening to destroy his family and the even more terrifying enemy stalking his sleep. Chilling and utterly convincing, The Between follows the struggles of a man desperately trying to hold on to the people and life he loves, but may have already lost. The compelling plot holds readers in suspense until the final, profound moment of resolution.

Naked Came the Manatee

In South Florida, everyone wants to get a head. But not just any head. A very famous human head severed and snugged away in a cryonic container. A head that could spark a revolution and change the course of history. Everybody wants a piece of the noggin: rotund gangster Big Joey G., a 102 year old environmentalist, hard boiled Miami reporter Britt Montero, lawyer Jake Lassiter, and a would be dictator in exile with ex president Jimmy Carter and a lovable manatee named Booger thrown in for good measure. With bodies piling up it’s anybody’s guess what will happen from one chapter to the next, as an all star line up of Florida’s finest writers take turns at taking this outrageously original novel to the limit and beyond.

The Black Rose

Born to former slaves on a Louisiana plantation in 1867, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty and indignity to become America’s first black female millionaire, the head of a hugely successful company, and a leading philanthropist in African American causes. Renowned author Alex Haley became fascinated by the story of this extraordinary hero*ine, and before his death in 1992 he embarked on the research and outline of a major novel based on her life. Now with The Black Rose, critically acclaimed writer Tananarive Due brings the work to inspiring completion.’I got my start by giving myself a start,’ Madam C.J. was fond of saying as she recounted her transformation from the uneducated laundress Sarah Breedlove to a woman of wealth, culture, and celebrity. Madam C.J. was nearing forty and married to a maverick Denver newspaperman when the wonder working hair care method she discovered changed her life. Seemingly overnight, she built a marketing empire that enlisted more than twenty thousand bright young African American women to demonstrate and sell her products door to door. By the time she died in 1919, Madam C.J. Walker had constructed her own factory from the ground up, established a training school, and built a twenty room mansion at Irvington on the Hudson, New York, called Villa Lawaro. A dynamic, brilliantly creative businesswoman, Madam C.J. also became a tireless activist in the fight against racial oppression and a key figure in the antilynching movement. A stalwart ‘race woman,’ she worked with black leaders like Booker T. Washington, and her legacy inspired poets like Langston Hughes. Yet she paid a steep emotional price for her worldly triumphs. Betrayed by her husband, plagued by rumors of her beloved daughter’s scandalous behavior, Madam C.J. suffered the private pain and disappointment all too familiar to many successful women. In the tradition that made Alex Haley’s Roots an international bestseller, Tananarive Due blends documented history, vivid dialogue, and a sweeping fictionalized narrative into a spellbinding portrait of this passionate and tenacious pioneer and the unforgettable era in which she lived.

The Good House

From the American Book Award winner and author of ‘one of the most talked about debuts in the horror field since the advent of Stephen King’ Publishers Weekly comes a terrifying story of supernatural suspense, as a woman searches for the inherited power that can save her hometown from evil forces. Tananarive Due’s first three novels gained her legions of dedicated fans who recognize a true master of the genre. Now she returns with her best yet a chilling story set in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. The house Angela Toussaint’s late grandmother owned is so beloved that townspeople in Sacajawea, Washington, call it The Good House. But is it? Angela hoped her grandmother’s famous ‘healing magic’ could save her failing marriage while she and her family lived in the old house the summer of 2001. Instead, an unexpected tragedy ripped Angela’s family apart. Now, two years later, Angela is moving past her grief and taking control of her life as a talent agent in Los Angeles, and she is finally ready to revisit the rural house she loved so much as a child. Back in Sacajawea, Angela realizes she hasn’t been the only one to suffer a shocking loss. Since she left, there have been more senseless tragedies, and Angela wonders if they are related somehow. Could the events be linked to a terrifying entity Angela’s grandmother battled in 1929? Did her teenage son, Corey, reawaken something that should have been left sleeping? With the help of Myles Fisher, her high school boyfriend, and clues from beyond the grave, Angela races to solve a deadly puzzle that has followed her family for generations. She must summon her own hidden gifts to face the timeless adversary stalking her in her grandmother’s house and in the Washington woods.

Joplin’s Ghost

From the award winning writer of The Good House, The Living Blood, and more, Joplin’s Ghost is a chilling tale of a star in the making whose life goes haywire as she is haunted by the ghost of a long dead music legend.

When Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents’ jazz club when she was crushed by a turn of the century piano. Now twenty four, Phoenix is launching a career as an R & B singer. She’s living the life young artists envy and seems destined for fame and fortune. But a chance visit to a historical site in St. Louis ignites a series of bizarre, erotic encounters with a spirit who may be the King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin.

The music of Scott Joplin is strange enough to the ears of the hip hop generation, but the idea that these antique sounds are being channeled by the protegee of rap superstar G Ronn is nothing short of ludicrous.

With growing violence in G Ronn’s inner circle and a ghost bent on living forever through her, Phoenix’s life suddenly hangs in the balance,’ writes Tananarive Due. Can the power of her own inner song and the love of a music writer who believes in her give Phoenix the strength to fight to live out her own future? Or will she be trapped forever in Scott Joplin’s doomed, tragic past?

The Ancestors

Dead. Some evils are so great that they transcend death. In Brandon Massey’s ‘The Patriarch,’ a young writer travels to the hushed backwoods of Mississippi, where dangerous secrets surface as a generations old feud comes to bone chilling new life…
Buried. The souls of the mistreated always find a way to be heard. In L.A. Banks’s ‘Ev’ry Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep,’ violent visions haunt a man until he’s handed an opportunity to right the wrongs of the past and prevent unspeakable acts from occurring once again…
Forgotten. When horrors are covered up and lost, our ancestors must find a way even in death to tell their tales. In Tananarive Due’s ‘Ghost Summer,’ ancestors haunt the nights of two children. And when a grisly discovery is made, these ancestors will make their mark on both the dead and the living…
‘Massey ventures into areas unexplored by most other black novelists. The result is artful and stunning.’ Chicago Tribune ‘Tananarive Due is creating classics.’ Tina McElroy Ansa ‘Banks’s writing is lush and detailed, fully bringing her characters to life or unlife, weaving a complex world of Good vs. Evil with its own intricate hierarchy.’ Fangoria Magazine

Freedom in the Family

History happens one person at a time.
Patricia Stephens Due

Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era, surrendering her very freedom to ensure that the rights of others might someday be protected. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, they have written a paean to the movement its struggles, its nameless foot soldiers, and its achievements and an incisive examination of the future of justice in this country. Their mother daughter journey spanning the struggles of two generations is an unforgettable story.

In 1960, when she was a student at Florida A&M University, Patricia and her sister Priscilla were part of the movement’s landmark jail in, the first time during the student sit in movement when protestors served their time rather than paying a fine. She and her sister, and three FAMU students, spent forty nine days behind bars rather than pay for the crime of sitting at a Woolworth lunch counter. Thus began a lifelong commitment to human rights. Patricia and her husband, civil rights lawyer John Due, worked tirelessly with many of the movement s greatest figures throughout the sixties to bring about change, particularly in the Deep Southern state of Florida.

Freedom in the Family chronicles these years with fascinating, raw power. Featuring interviews with civil rights leaders like Black Panther Stokely Carmichael later known as Kwame Ture and ordinary citizens whose heroism has been largely unknown, this is a sweeping, multivoiced account of the battle for civil rights in America. It also reveals those leaders potentially controversial feelings about the current state of our nation, a country where police brutality and crippling disparities for blacks and whites in health care, education, employment, and criminal justice still exist today.

A mother writes so that the civil liberties she struggled for are not eroded, so that others will take up the mantle and continue to fight against injustice and discrimination. Her daughter, as part of the integration generation, writes to say thank you, to show the previous generation how very much they ve done and how much better off she is for their effort despite all the work that remains. Their combined message is remarkable, moving, and important. It makes for riveting reading.

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