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African Immortals Books in Order

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See the African Immortals books by Tananarive Due in order, with quick summaries, series background, reading order, and help choosing where to start.

Last updated: July 5, 2026

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African Immortals books in publication order

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4 books

1

My Soul to Keep

by Tananarive Due

1997

Jessica has the husband, daughter, and life she wanted, until a string of violent deaths exposes David's impossible secret. His love is real, but so is the immortal world closing in around their family.

2

The Living Blood

by Tananarive Due

2001

Jessica Jacobs-Wolde learns that the gift passed to her daughter Fana is older and more dangerous than she imagined. As Fana's powers grow, family grief turns into a supernatural struggle over who will control a child who may change the world.

3

Blood Colony

by Tananarive Due

2008

Teenager Fana Wolde runs from the protected world of her immortal family and into a dangerous underground built around Glow, a healing drug made from immortal blood. Her rebellion sparks a hunt that turns ancient prophecy and modern disease into the same war.

4

My Soul to Take

by Tananarive Due

2011

Fana Wolde, born with extraordinary powers, is pulled between love, prophecy, and a violent struggle over the healing force in her blood. As old enemies close in, saving the world may cost her any chance at an ordinary life.

African Immortals books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "My Soul to Keep"

    My Soul to Keep

    by Tananarive Due

    1997African Immortals, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Living Blood"

    The Living Blood

    by Tananarive Due

    2001African Immortals, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Blood Colony"

    Blood Colony

    by Tananarive Due

    2008African Immortals, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "My Soul to Take"

    My Soul to Take

    by Tananarive Due

    2011African Immortals, Book 4

Series background & context

The African Immortals books begin with a marriage and a secret large enough to wreck everything. In My Soul to Keep, Jessica thinks she knows her husband David. He is attentive, brilliant, and devoted to family life. Then a series of violent deaths forces the truth into the open: David is part of a hidden line of African immortals, and loving him means stepping into a world that has been shaping human lives from the shadows for centuries.

That first book sets the tone for the whole series. These are supernatural novels, yes, but they are also family stories. Due is interested in what impossible knowledge does to a home, a marriage, and a parent's sense of safety. The fear is not just that monsters exist. It is that the person beside you has been carrying a truth so large it changes the meaning of your entire life together.

The marriage is the doorway, but the family becomes the whole map.

As the series moves through The Living Blood, Blood Colony, and My Soul to Take, the focus widens from Jessica and David's relationship to their daughter Fana, who is born into powers even the immortals do not fully understand. What begins as a dark family secret grows into something much bigger, involving prophecy, rival factions, healing blood, disease, and the question of whether a gift meant to save can also destroy. The scope expands, but the emotional center stays close to home.

That balance is what gives the series its pull. Due can move from private grief to global stakes without losing the thread. One chapter might feel intimate and domestic, the next mythic and apocalyptic. The books travel beyond Miami and into a wider network of immortal history, but they never stop asking human questions about loyalty, love, control, and what parents owe their children when danger is literally in the blood.

The tone sits somewhere between horror, dark fantasy, and family saga. There is romance here, but it is haunted romance. There is immortality here, but it never feels easy or glamorous. Again and again, the books come back to the cost of power, the seduction of certainty, and the terror of trying to protect the people you love from a destiny they may already carry inside them.

If you like supernatural fiction that starts with character and grows into something epic, African Immortals is a rewarding series to follow in order. It has secret histories, moral knots, and real emotional weight. Most of all, it treats immortality not as a cool trick, but as a burden that keeps colliding with family, faith, and the ordinary wish to live a decent life.

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