Dr. Karen Armstrong is a young archeologist who finds an unusual mummy. Once removed from the tomb, its desiccated body slowly assumes its original godlike physique. This is because our main male character, Torion Xannon, is not a mummy at all, but an Immortal trapped without food or water for a millennium within an Egyptian tomb.

Over time, Torion’s body is rehydrated by Karen’s cleaning efforts, and his sleeping beauty captures her heart. Karen keeps Torian’s existence secret when she smuggles him out of the lab and takes him to her Paris hotel room. Torion’s body and mind then awakens, and he seduces Karen, to her surprised and very grateful satisfaction. During their lovemaking, Torion is overwhelmed with the need to bite Karen. He does so, and discovers that he can deliver multiple orgasms to his partners.

Karen has to return to Egypt, while Torion remains behind, alone, in Paris. He decides to explore this strange new world to discover who and what he is.

Torion spends the next thirty years traveling Europe. He uses his talent for seduction to gain access to fashionable people. Through the course of his travels, Torion discovers that he can manipulate people’s minds, and he never ages—a condition that forces him to change his location and identity from time to time. The more Torion learns about himself, the more he wants to find his own people—because he can’t be the only one of his kind! So Torion devises a plan to leave a trail of breadcrumbs—bite marks on the women he beds—in hopes his people will find him.

Torion arrives in New Orleans just after New Years of 2000. He meets the Amazon, a strikingly beautiful woman who seduces him. Things get really steamy when the Amazon bites Torion and he realizes she is just like him. Yet the Amazon believes that she is a vampire. Torion knows she is not, and nor is he, even though he doesn’t remember what he is.

Torion continues his trailblazing pursuit of passion until he finds himself in Jacksonville and he meets the mermaid Eezekia. That’s right: mermaids (and mermen) do exist. Eezekia tells him who and what he is, because the merpeople have long had an agreement with his people, who she refers to as the Ancient Ones, to breed with the merpeople to sire children. (When on land, the merpeople take fully human forms.) Eezekia tells Torion that she wants him to father her children—and that the Ancient Ones always gave them twins.

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