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When I met Kiersten, time stood still. It was as if every cell in my body screamed her. I couldn't look away, I couldn't walk away, I couldn't even move. My other half, my soul mate, was staring right at me. I had to have her. I had to make her mine. But I felt selfish doing that - knowing that I may not have endless amounts of time to give her... and even now that every things' over with and I've been given that time back. Nothing is ever certain in this life. Which is why I'm about to do something crazy, impulsive, daring.

I had his posters on my wall when I was 16, and when I accidentally got pregnant in high school, his was the face I dreamt of when I closed my eyes at night. Now, more than 20 years later, that dream has turned into reality. Not only is Drew Amhurst in my tiny town of Seaside, alive and in the flesh, but he's mentoring my rock-star son. Drew says he's mine for a week, and he made me three promises: no strings attached, no falling in love, and only seven days.

The tiny Norwegian town was meant to offer answers. Instead, Liv arrives to find a tale older than time—eerily familiar, filled with ancient secrets and perilous desire. In this new adult fantasy that fuses the mythic mystery of American Gods with the achingly impossible romance of The Cruel Prince, the legends of the past are never truly dead and buried.

Die schöne Austin ist außer sich: Thatch, der Mann, den sie liebt, hat eine andere Frau geküsst und dann ohne eine weitere Erklärung mit ihr Schluss gemacht. Nach Tränen, viel zu vielen Süßigkeiten und einem Serien-Marathon will Austin vor allem eins: Rache! Mit beträchtlicher krimineller Energie und viel Fantasie macht sie fortan Thatch das Leben zur Hölle. Und Thatch? Der attraktive Schönheitschirurg weiß, dass er ihre Liebe zerstört hat. Um Austin zu schützen, hat er die Notbremse gezogen, aber das darf sie niemals erfahren. Tatsache ist: Er ist nicht über sie hinweg.

Lucas hat eine Riesendummheit gemacht. Einmal. Seitdem ist sein Ruf ruiniert und er lebt ein Leben als Playboy. Seine Regeln sind ganz einfach: Jeden Tag der Woche hat er eine andere im Bett, er macht keine Versprechungen und keine Ausnahmen. Doch dann taucht Avery wieder in seinem Leben auf. Oder besser gesagt: in seiner Firma. Eine Situation mit einem gewissen... Potenzial: Denn so sexy und frech wie Avery ist, passt sie bestens in Lucas' Beuteschema. Avery wiederum findet Lucas zwar ziemlich heiß, kann es ihm aber nicht verzeihen, dass er einst ihre Schwester betrogen hat.

Liv Olson has been drawn to Norse Mythology her entire life. After earning her degree and working as a curator at one of New York's most prestigious museums, she gets an unexpected offer for her dream job in Norway - the same place her brother disappeared months ago - after a cryptic message about finding their long-lost father. She finds herself surrounded by superstitious townspeople who refuse to even look at the water. Liv soon realizes that the small town of Vonn is nothing like it seems.

I see everything. I feel everything. I watch people fall in love. I watch them burn with hate, anger, rage, and I see the cycle repeat over and over again. I take it on every night I work at Timber, aka Anubis’s bar in downtown Seattle, and then I help the rest of the immortals keep the very intense balance between Heaven and Earth. I see everyone's future but mine, and when I try to look, all I see is darkness, despair, need…

My dad is protective. Scratch that. He's like the person who would grab a chair, place it on the lawn, and watch me walk across the street just to deliver an apple. So, when a bet between the rude, good-looking guy across the way becomes a full-on battle, it turns into absolute chaos. He says my degree is useless and that I'm a rich, spoiled princess. I say he's an idiot who only knows how to fix motorcycles and is incapable of having a clean-shaven face. He gives me a tiara. Thanks. I buy him a razor. Perfect.