Keeper of Light and Dust Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Natasha Mostert

A highly original supernatural thriller blending magic, science,martial arts, and the greatest desire of all: to live forever

Mia Lockheart has a secret. Her mother was a Keeper, aswas her grandmother women who were warriors, healers,and protectors. As Mia practices her craft among theboxers and martial artists of South London, and begins aromance with her childhood friend, the fighter Nick Duffy,she has no idea that a man who calls himself 'Dragonfly' iswatching from the shadows.

Adrian Ashton is a brilliant scientist, an expert in the breakingfield of biophoton emissions from cells within the humanbody. He is also a skilled martial artist and a modern-dayvampire. With the aid of the enigmatic Book of Life andDeath, written in the thirteenth century by the legendaryChinese physician Zhang Sanfeng, he preys on other martialartists and drains them of their chi the vital energy thatflows through the body.

Mia finds herself drawn to his dark genius, but when he targetsNick as his next victim, she is forced to choose between thetwo men. It becomes a fight to the death in which love isboth the greatest weakness and the biggest prize.