A vampire novel but without bloodsucking, as a young Black woman finds that her marvellous new husband is a few centuries older than she thought he was, and that he wants to make her and their daughter immortal by killing them both. This was very engaging stuff even if it did push the immortality pretty far: Dawit, the vampire, is also fairly well invulnerable, and decapitation and a stake through the heart have no ill effect on him. The immortals regenerate new heads.