The Oagenn

"Sasser's prose is gorgeous... Well written and immersive, historical fantasy readers and lovers of seafaring danger will adore this." -Readers' Favorite (5 Stars)

He has worn the same young face for three hundred years-and now his own brother has taken the one thing he cannot outlive.

In 1935, Nathanael Livanos passes for a man in his thirties. He is one of the Ốẚḡenn, a seafaring people who age a single year for every ten that pass, and for three centuries he has hidden in plain sight as a sea captain and the head of a shipping family on the South Carolina coast. He also guards a secret men have killed for: a ring of terrible power, one of four scattered across the world.

His semi-immortal brother has wanted that ring since the night Nathanael took his eye. He no longer answers to the name they shared as boys. He is El-Jy'een now, and when darkness falls he leaves his own body to hunt as a black jaguar. To force the bargain he has always craved, he seizes the one thing Nathanael cannot replace-his son-and names his ransom: the ring.

Nathanael gathers the few he trusts: his wife, an aging Lowcountry lawyer, and a Gullah guide who knows every bend of the black-water rivers. Together they mount a desperate rescue through the marshes and ruined rice fields of the Carolina coast. But recovering his son proves only the beginning. To learn what his brother truly wants-and what the ring was made to do-Nathanael must sail across the Atlantic to a blind Oracle on a distant cliff, whose answer is worse than losing a son and older than his brother: a reckoning a hundred years away, and a price that must be paid now to meet it.

Sweeping from a great earthquake to a killing hurricane, from the black-water rivers of the Lowcountry to the wild edges of the Old World, The Ốẚḡenn: Turning the Tide is an epic historical fantasy told in the spare, understated style of Ernest Hemingway, for readers of Matt Haig's How to Stop Time and Shannon Chakraborty's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, in the sweeping tradition of Ken Follett and Carlos Ruiz Zafón. It is a story of family, faith, and endurance-and of a man with everything to lose and all the time in the world to lose it.

Book One of the Ốẚḡenn (OH-AY-jinn) series.