Before the Greeks, before the Egyptians, before the Babylonians, Marduk walked. Immortal, or nearly so, he was revered as a God. As a God, he bedded earth girls, impregnating many. Some of his children got the immortality gene. But he never stuck around long enough to tell them. Jason Edwards is one of those children. He has spent a lifetime -- a hundred normal lifetimes -- trying to understand his gift and cope with the downside: no one else he knows has it. He is a man who cannot die trying to live within a world filled with people who can, and do. His biggest problem is that he falls in...