Dark Princess

Deborah Derben's discovery of her great-grandfather's handwritten memoir about his late 1930s experience in the mysterious New Mexico cavern prompted her to embark on a journey of discovery that wedded her boyfriend's studies in Mali with old family strories, his employer's Middle Eastern heritage, and their academic colleague's Mexican studies to explain why they and certain other humans enjoy immunity from the predations of the underground creatures that have tormented mankind from the beginning of time, and why it falls to Deborah, her lover, and their colleagues to restore the soul of mankind.