Tori Karacis can’t believe she’s been linked in the tabloids to Hollywood hottie Apollo Demas. At which time all hell will, literally, break loose.īetween saving the world, the woman, and cultists and her crazy uncle, Tori’s giving up on getting to the beach before all the good spots are taken. Unless Tori finds a way to bring her back, he’ll abandon the gates of Tartarus. Predictably, Hades isn’t about to let her go without a fight. And he’s lured Demeter, goddess of the harvest, over to his side by finding a way to get her daughter away from Hades for good. He’s resurrected his bloody fertility rite, complete with frenzied female groupies who tear men limb from limb. Bodies that have been shredded by something too big to be…shall we say, of this world? Worse, Uncle Christos has disappeared after stumbling onto a deadly cult masquerading as the Back to Earth movement. into the ocean, more dead bodies are turning up near the leftover crater. Just a few weeks after she prevented some rogue gods from blowing L.A. It’s an ill wind that carries bad news, and Tori’s just had a double load of it blow through her door. It’s one of my favorite novellas of the year…. “This was just an entertaining read, and one of the rare books where I liked the heroine, villain, and the love interests.

Her love life has to take a backseat to the danger at her door, though it’s a toss-up which will kill her quickest. Suddenly, all of her family’s tall tales seem a bit more believable, especially when Apollo- the Apollo out of myth and legend, though now hiding out among humans as a star of stage and screen-appears in her office, looking to hire her. She knows the stories and that tangling with gods never works out well for their human lovers, but she’s drawn to Apollo in a way she can’t resist, even given her feelings for one very hot and hardened cop. Tori’s debilitating fear of heights has kept her out of the family acrobatic troupe, but her extreme nosiness fits right in with her Uncle Christos’ private investigation business, where she was apprenticing when he disappeared on an Odyssean journey to find himself. Muddling through on her own, she’s reduced to hunting (not stalking, as that would just be weird), brass-bra’d Hollywood agent Circe Holland in order to deliver her a message…only to witness her murder by something that looks like the creature from the black lagoon. Circus in business. Then again, maybe not. It may be just coincidence that her glance can literally stop men in their tracks, or that her family sports enough irregularities to keep the Rialto Bros. Among other things, her family line may or may not trace back to a drunken liaison between the god Pan and one of the immortal gorgons. Tori Karacis is a little more than your average private eye.

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