
A King's Ransom: The Price of Immortality For millennia, they have been the constants in a world of change—Adamocles and Evangeline Eden, the Alphas, the "immovable rock" and the "eternal wellspring." To the outside world and even to their closest allies, they are forces of nature, seemingly invincible beings whose power is as old as the world itself. But as readers will discover in the shocking opening of The Host , even immortality has a price, and the bill has just come due. The Unbreakable, Broken We know Adamocles Eden as the "Black Ghost," a warrior of incomprehensible skill and power who has faced down demons, liches, and entire armies without faltering. He is the anchor, the steady hand, the panther coiled and ready for any threat. That perception is shattered in a quiet Parisian alley when a single, suppressed shot rings out. For the first time in millions of years, Ado's Alpha healing fails. The wound from the m...