Name: Amanda

Status: Immortal

Age: around 1200

Born: 9th century Normandy

Primary Weapon: short sword

Secondary Weapon: fan and her womanly wilds

Amanda was born in 9th century Normandy. This would make her nearly 1200 years old (give or take a century) and she's still trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. One thing Amanda will always be is a survivor. She began her life as a pauper and survived the plague. After that, it's all a cakewalk. Amanda's modus operandi in life is to take it now because tomorrow it could disappear.

For twelve centuries, she has been one of the world's most charming, competent and totally unrepentant thieves. Her morality is situational at best. Having seen human nature unmasked over the centuries, Amanda is wary of everyone she meets, assumes the worst of them and thinks the world revolves around her, which in fact, it has. All of this has led to a most interesting existence, filled with romance and intrigue, adventures and riches. And it could have gone blithely for her this way, had not an event occurred that changed the way she would look at the rest of her life. A mortal died.

Not just any mortal. This was a woman, a mother, a police detective. Claudia Hoffman thought nothing of giving up her own life to save Amanda's and indeed stepped in front of a bullet meant for the Immortal woman. What Claudia had no way of knowing was the bullet couldn't kill Amanda. Claudia died for no reason and left behind a grieving family, bereaved colleagues and a partner trying to find meaning in it all. Amanda is thrown by the needless and heroic unselfishness of Claudia's sacrifice. It turns her inward and makes her look at who and what she is. And for the first time, she finds herself questioning her own nature.

Amidst her mid-life crisis and changing outlook, she also has a new man in her life. Nick Wolfe brings up some old familiar feelings in her, feelings she fights. Personal involvement with a mortal is dangerous territory and ripe for heartache. They are polar opposites and sometimes she resents the way he calls her on her bullshit. She is also constantly fighting with her own lifelong instincts.