What would you give to live forever?

A lock of hair? A drop of blood? Your soul?

In this spine-tingling episode, I plunge deep into one of history’s darkest and most enduring obsessions: the quest for immortality. Blending gripping fiction with chilling real-life accounts, I'll unraveling the strange, unsettling truths behind mankind’s age-old desire to cheat death.

🩸 From medieval castles to Silicon Valley labs, the pursuit of eternal life has taken some truly bizarre turns.

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• The horrifying legend of Countess Báthory, said to have bathed in blood to preserve her youth
• The disturbing practice of parabiosis, and why tech billionaires are paying for the blood of the young
• The rise and fall of Dr. Serge Voronoff, who implanted monkey testicles in wealthy men during the 1920s
• Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, who died from his own immortality potion—and built a booby-trapped tomb that has never been opened
• Isaac Newton’s secret obsession with alchemy, the philosopher’s stone, and the fine line between genius and madness

But what if immortality isn’t just legend? What if someone actually found the secret?

In Shadow of the Sunstone, my collaboration with thriller writer John Hopton, we explore this in all its detail:

Eternal youth. Forbidden science. A pilot caught in the crossfire.

When retired Air Force pilot Nora "Sierra" Byrd is handed a relic said to unlock the secret to eternal life, she’s thrust into a global conspiracy involving ancient tombs, human experiments, and a ruthless enemy willing to kill—or die—to live forever.

Some people will do anything to escape death. Sierra’s job is to make sure they don’t succeed.

The Shadow of the Sunstone is a pulse-pounding archaeological thriller where the quest for immortality turns deadly.

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