Julia Sanders was the only immortal in the world. She would awaken for three years and then sleep for sixty. The servants she once took in founded the four great families, and her former medicine apprentice became a renowned master of healing. Matthew Finley of the Finley family went to the remote Veilpeak to seek the legendary healer, only to find that the healer had long since aged, while Julia had just awakened from her slumber.
It turned out that the Finley family's ancestor, Gerald Finley, was merely Ger Finley, a starving child Julia had casually saved during a famine. Meanwhile, Trent Graham, the head of the Graham family, had begged to serve Julia, but his descendants disobeyed his orders and failed to bring her down the mountain. When Julia finally arrived, Trent's granddaughter, Penny Graham, even suspected that Julia was her grandfather's long-lost illegitimate daughter, scheming to claim the family fortune.
In truth, Julia had come to investigate an evil artifact, a trail that eventually led her to Kingston University…
