An Apple a Day

An Apple a Day by Eric Grogg opens with a simple, unsettling image: a shriveled apple and a letter from a dead man sitting on an attorney's desk late at night. Lawrence Greaves never expected his best friend Eddie Boevers to drag him into something this old, this dangerous, or this personal. Eddie died under circumstances that made no sense, but the letter he left behind tells a story that spans four thousand years, three continents, and the furthest edges of what a human being can become.

From the court of Pharaoh Djoser to the rubble of wartime Berlin to a gleaming corporate tower in the Pacific Northwest, the fruit of the Tree of Life has been quietly reshaping history--and the people closest to it. As Lawrence reads through the night, he begins to suspect that his own wife, the woman he has loved for thirty years, may not be who she appears to be.

The apple on his desk is not a relic. It is an invitation. And the question it poses is the oldest one of all: How much of your humanity would you trade for the chance to live forever?

-- Eric Grogg