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A Short Story from the Author of the Fate of the Gods trilogy and the Orc Saga. After her mother's death, a lonely little girl imagines herself a friend named Donar to chase away her fears at night. There's nothing strange about that, exactly. He tucks her in at night when her father is working late, and tells her stories about golden boars and magic cloaks made of feathers that allow a person to fly. When Donar is with her, she knows she'll always be safe. Then she grows up. But her supposedly *imaginary* friend? He's still with her.

A collection of the first three Fate of the Gods novellas, together for the first time in one volume, featuring an all new novella, Finding Fate, the newly revised and republished short story, Bride Price, and a never before seen bonus scene set during the events of Forged by Fate.Tempting Fate (Book 1.5)Mia's lived in her sister's shadow long enough. Bride Price (Book 1.75)Mia may have chosen Adam, but that doesn't mean Jean is through with him yet. (Newly revised!)Taming Fate (Book 2.5)As tensions in the town grow and plague threatens, Ryam DeLeon knows if he and Eve cannot find common ground, their first Christmas may be their last.Finding Fate (Book 3.5)An All New Epilogue to Beyond Fate: Now that Marcus knows the truth about Eve, what is he going to make of it?

Ordinarily, Gwen likes goats, even makes her living by milking them, but these two are some kind of devil-spawn, and one of them is pawing the ground, horns aimed at her gut. The fact that they were followed by a blonde farmhand with a much too charming smile isn't all that much of an improvement, either. But Thjalfi makes himself useful. He's lean and smart, with a warmth in his pale blue eyes that makes her shiver, and she can't deny that he has a way with her horses. He seems to have a way with her, too. There's just one problem: Thjalfi's a slave, a bondservant to the god of thunder, Thor, and no matter how far they fall in love, he can't stay.  But this so-called god who owns him? He's about to learn just how far a Midwestern girl will go to free the boy she loves. "e;A heart pounding, page turning, brilliantly crafted twist on a Norse classic. Postcards is nearly impossible to put down!"e; -- S.T. Bende, author of The Elsker Saga

In the early 20th Century, in a so-called civilized world on the brink of war, Eve endures. Far from the powder keg of Europe, in Connecticut, she endures a marriage to an abusive, jealous, monstrous man. And when her husband commits her to an asylum for the mentally ill as a convenient means by which to control her, into the care of a doctor determined to drive her mad, she endures that, too.  Until Thor finds her trapped inside the ward, beaten and broken. Until the doctor and her husband conspire to push her just too far beyond the limits of her self-control.  Until she cannot endure any of it for even one moment longer. [CW: Verbal and physical abuse, miscarriage, abortion, self-harm, suicidal ideation, eugenics.]

A short story from the author of the Fate of the Gods trilogy and the Orc Saga. Kate isn't exactly human. Too bad her father died in a snowstorm before he could tell her the truth, if he was ever going to tell her at all.  Now, determined to conquer her bone-deep fear of the snow, after years away in the south, she's returned home to the house her father left her in winter. But she never expected a trip to face her fears would mean watching herself turn ice blue in the cold. Or that she'd be dealing with some yeti with a talent for building emotive snowmen who seems determined to tell her everything she never wanted to know.

Pirithous is back!But after 3000 years trapped in Hades, what does he have left to live for?Pirithous, son of Zeus, stumbles out of the Underworld into Upstate New York, a land nothing like the one he left behind so long ago. The price of his freedom: revive the worship of his gods and build Persephone a temple for her help in his escape. But the world is so changed, Pirithous, once a wealthy and honored king, doesn't know where to begin.Raised in a strict Greek Orthodox family, Thalia has always been something of a wild child. Wild enough to pick up an attractive man off the side of the road in exchange for his help, no questions asked. When he claims he's a son of Zeus, she gives him the benefit of the doubt. But Pirithous is more pirate than anything else, and an interstate road sign isn't the only thing he's happy to steal...Hunted by centaurs sent by Hades himself, Pirithous is a danger to more than the woman who's taken him in, and even for love and the help he needs to repay his debts, it's hard to justify the risk. Pirithous must find a way to work around the threat of his gods and the complications of the modern world to become the man and the hero Thalia deserves. Unless he'd prefer to return to the Underworld—without any hope of coming back.A fan-favorite hero in Helen of Sparta and Tamer of Horses, Pirithous returns for another adventure, set in the world you know.

No one asked Samson if he wanted to dispense God's Justice, and so far the job has brought him nothing but anguish. Knowing no Israelite will help him to free himself, Samson is left with little choice but to turn to the Philistines. To Delilah.