The Immortal Gabriel Jones

Book One

Evanson Smith

In the winter of 1834 a boy is born on a Pennsylvania farm who can hear a church bell two miles off. Twenty-five years later a great solar storm pours its fire down a telegraph wire and into his hands — and Gabriel Jones stops aging. Across a hundred years he loves and buries everyone he is given, keeps faith with a single promise made to a boy under the stars, and sets out to build, in secret, a machine that can hold a person the way only a heart can. Book One.