A young girl, on the cusp of sexual maturity, in what is now known as Benin, West Africa, is seduced by a beautiful stranger, a man the likes of which she has never seen before.
Their encounter changes her forever.
She becomes an asiman, a vampire: one of the undead.
The Promise Keeper comes to her, willing her to do his bidding-to keep an unspoken promise.
He probes her mind and plants suggestions so she will follow his plan, until she fights back.
She runs, her travels taking her to Europe and the Caribbean over centuries to escape him.
She finally settles in New York City, convinced that she has eluded him.
until she falls in love.
The Promise Keeper is a story of love, despair, murder, and deceit.
It is a vampire tale like no other.
About author(s): L.
Marie Wood , (Author), Martinsburg, W.
, is an award-winning author and screenwriter.
She is the recipient of the Golden Stake Award for her novel The Promise Keeper and the Harold L.
Brown Award for her screenplay Home Party .
Her short story The Ever After is part of the Bram Stoker Award Finalist anthology Sycorax's Daughters .
She was recognized in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol.
15 and as one of the 100+ Black Women in Horror Fiction.
Active in the horror community, Wood is an officer in Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction.
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