"Vera is losing her grip on time. She's been driving all night, for days even, she can't say. She pulls over onto the shoulder of road next to the creek, her wheels rumbling across a muddy lump of plowed snow as she comes to a stop." To be young forever...is it really what you want? In this excerpt from a new novel, a woman born in the Catskills over two hundred years ago returns to her home, seeking the source of her immortality. What could go wrong?