The Keeper

From the award-winning author of SEASON OF THE WITCH comes a highly original martial arts thriller. Natasha Mostert's KEEPER OF LIGHT AND DUST, blends mysticism with science and explores themes as old as the imperative of violence, the redemptive power of love and the greatest desire of all - to live forever.Adrian Ashton is a gifted scientist - and a hunter. Calling himself Dragonfly, he preys on fighters and martial artists who are blessed with a strong life force, draining them of their chi and making it his own. But the hunter becomes the hunted when a mysterious woman enters his life. She belongs to a long line of women who are warriors, healers and protectors. When Dragonfly targets the man she loves, she sets out to defeat him. It becomes a fight to the death in which love is both the greatest weakness and the biggest prize.

Natasha Mostert is a South African novelist and screenwriter. Educated in South Africa and at Columbia University, New York,  she currently lives in London, United Kingdom.
Her fourth novel, SEASON OF THE WITCH, won the World Book Day:  Book to Talk About Award 2009.

She is an avid kickboxer. Please visit her website at  natashamostert.com to find out more about her involvement with the CPAU Fight for Peace project, which teaches Afghan women how to box and feel empowered in their lives.

Future goals include writing poetry, executing a perfect spinning crescent kick and coming face to face with the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe.