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Novel
Immortal Gifts
He lied about his identity. Two hundred years later, he’s still paying the price…
Prussia, 1841. Abraham only ever wanted to play violin. Hiding his Jewish status so he can study at the prestigious Berlin Academy of Music, the eager young man is delighted to find a patron who believes in him. But he’s mortified when his new friend turns him into a vampire… and Abraham earns the fury of an ancient antisemite who vows to see him permanently dead.
Fleeing the hate-mongering fiend across the decades, the sensitive violinist at last settles in twenty-first-century New Jersey with a mortal woman. But when he discovers his relentless tormentor has tracked him down yet again, Abraham despairs he’ll never find true happiness.
With everyone he’s ever loved at risk, can he escape the rage of a ruthless bigot?
In a complex tale woven through history, Katherine Villyard delivers a fresh and insightful twist on the vampire novel. Infusing the narrative with profound themes of love, betrayal, and the nature of monsters, she crafts an unforgettable saga of surviving prejudice that will keep readers turning pages deep into the night.
Immortal Gifts is the thoughtful first book in the Immortal Vampires contemporary fantasy series. If you like well-drawn characters, dual-timeline storytelling, and pulse-pounding suspense, then you’ll adore Katherine Villyard’s compelling read.
Buy Immortal Gifts to tap a vein of devotion today!
Short Fiction
- “Becoming,” Newsletter Exclusive, January 2023
- “The Captivity of Princess Sallya,” Alien Skin, October/November 2005.
- “Corporate Oversight,” The Fifth Di…, December 2006.
- “Grandfather Paradox,” Electric Velocipede, issue #17/18, Spring 2009. Escape Pod, March 10, 2011. Reprinted in Love Stories.
- “In the Water,” Fictitious Force, issue #6, 2009. Escape Pod, May 13, 2011. Reprinted in Love Stories.
- “La Divinia Commedia”, ChiZine, October 2011, reprinted in Broad Spectrum: The 2012 Broad Universe Fiction Sampler (October 30, 2012). Reprinted in Love Stories.
- “Minotaur,” in Alien Abduction: Short Fiction on the Themes of Alien and Abduction, September 28, 2015. Reprinted in Love Stories.
- “Ondine’s Curse,” Electric Velocipede, December 11, 2013. Reprinted in Love Stories.
- “Saving Alan Idle,” Escape Pod, July 5, 2013. Reprinted in Love Stories.
- “Till Death Do Us Part,” web exclusive! October 15, 2024
- “Underworld,” Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, January 2015. Reprinted in Love Stories.
- “Victual-Seeking Varmints from Outer Space,” Alien Skin, May 2004.
Immortal Gifts
He lied about his identity. Two hundred years later, he’s still paying the price…
Prussia, 1841. Abraham only ever wanted to play violin. Hiding his Jewish status so he can study at the prestigious Berlin Academy of Music, the eager young man is delighted to find a patron who believes in him. But he’s mortified when his new friend turns him into a vampire… and Abraham earns the fury of an ancient antisemite who vows to see him permanently dead.
With everyone he’s ever loved at risk, can he escape the rage of a ruthless bigot?
Becoming
In this short fiction teaser for Immortal Gifts Ludwig, a young 18th century German nobleman, is betrayed and turned into a vampire. He must face an ancient evil—including an evil that has taken root inside him—and learn who he really is.
Love Stories
What is love? What can love drive us to do?
In these stories, love pushes us to revenge, to reach beyond the boundaries of life and death. To rescue a family member. To fight the good fight without even knowing it, or to risk everyone and everything to save someone who may or may not be worthy. To make the wrong decisions and walk into hell. To transcend who we are.
Love can make us both the best and worst versions of ourselves.
In effect, Immortal Gifts defies the usual formulaic writing of the genre to return to the meat of a superior vampire novel: good tension, wry humor, psychologically deep characters, and the allure, promises, and pitfalls of immortality.