Showing The Crown: Ascension by Hannibal Tabu

In the old days, people of the world believed that lineage should be traced from the female line. There could always be questions about who fathered a child, but rarely questions about who the mother was. Transfer of lands and titles also came to be done this way -- the king wielded power, but the queen was the source of it -- until the advent of the "modern world."

Sometime around 6,500 BC a very special woman was born, one who stopped aging at twenty-two and has been alive ever since. Possessing the strength of seven men and senses far more perceptive than average man, she also possessed a love that was more than that of anyone else in the world. Anyone she fell in love with became a god among men -- his voice would be able to sway people's wills, his fist like a thunderbolt, gravity a mere intellectual conceit he could ignore. This love was The Crown, a token of her devotion in the form of power, and these days she calls herself Tonya Fitzgerald.

The Premise for Book One

Fearing the consequences of this love, Tonya spent most of her millennia in solitude, sublimating her desires in learning and secrecy. One night, a man whose face echoed an ancient flame in her heart snuck past the guards and captured her attention. For the first time in four centuries, Tonya fell under the spell of romance, discarding her carefully crafted isolation, consequences be damned. She discovers happiness in the evanescent arms of a mortal named James Edwards, even as the shadow that's haunted her for centuries seeks to darken her life again.

The Premise for Book Two

Jetting around the globe, doing the archaeology of the impossible, was tons of fun until the Manos family got involved. James and Tonya filled their days with hunts for the most dangerous artifacts of the old world and their nights with each others sensual pleasure. Little did they know that the Five, carrying the mandate of the Byzantine Empire and a dedication to rid the world of the same treasures that James and Tonya seek to secure, were lying in their path, ready to rid the world of immortality in the name of God and Man. After ten centuries, Tonya is forced to face the legacy which killed more than a dozen immortals.