Immortal. Alone. Dangerous.
Cora is the immortal Greek goddess Persephone, living in a Malibu beach house in the twenty-first century. No matter how much therapy she undergoes, nothing eases the pain of her husband's recent murder.
Until Gabriel Cartwright walks into her life.
Gabe is a prim and proper East Coast realtor, hired to manage her move to Toronto. He's sweet, kind, and seemingly human. But beneath the surface, he belongs to a dwindling race of nymphs hunted for centuries by the ancient Olympian gods and goddesses-a race Cora has sworn to protect at any cost.
She didn't choose him by accident; she chose him because she knew what was coming.
As the slow-burning spark between them ignites, Olympus takes notice-and they're determined to kill Gabe to punish Cora and reclaim the power she's fought so hard to keep.
Now, Cora must guard Gabe with her life-or risk tearing the heavens apart trying. Content warning: CORA features a goddess who enjoys bad language, romance, and sexual situations. Although Cora is the same goddess as Persephone four thousand years earlier in A.L. Hawke's Cora: Rise of the Fallen Goddess, this contemporary urban fantasy is suited for an adult audience.
Autorentext
A.L. Hawke lives in Southern California torching the midnight candle over lovers against a backdrop of machines, nymphs, magic, spice and mayhem. With a medical science background, the author specializes in romantic fantasy and science fiction.
Klappentext
Cora has it all-wealth, loveliness-but she doesn't have a man. They just keep dying on her.
She is the immortal Greek goddess Persephone, living in a Malibu beach house in the twenty-first century. And no matter how much therapy she undergoes, nothing can ease her pain after the recent murder of her husband.
Until she meets Mr. Gabriel Cartwright, a prim and proper young East Coast realtor who's hired to arrange transfer of her things to her new home in Toronto. Cora likes him. He's tall, dark and yummy.
But Gabe holds a secret. He has Napean nymph blood, an ancestry that Imada, a despicable secret society of gods and goddesses, has been hunting for centuries. Cora knows this. That's why she hired him. She wants to be close to him. She wants to care for him. But Imada cares about him too-they want him dead.
Cora can heal wounds and move clouds, but she can't bring back her husband. Can her attraction to this new guy help her forget her loss? She has her ancient brutish lover Hades, the God of the Underworld, on her side. And Gabe has such a kind, sweet heart and is so handsome. Yeah, she'll keep her man or tear Imada apart trying.