Casey Simopolous is trying to make her move to her deceased
grandmother's hometown a permanent one, but so far all she
has done is work herself to death. During the day, she runs
the local bookstore, which she loves dearly, and at night,
she works at a strip club waiting tables. Recently she has
been feeling a little rundown; she isn't sleeping well and
hasn't been able to eat. One night at the club, her
symptoms are peaking to a point where she becomes dizzy,
and a very large handsome man comes to her rescue. Later
she is able to save him when he is attacked by creatures
that can't be real. Casey takes him home to heal from his
wounds and ends up experiencing an almost one-night stand.
She has no idea how much her world is turning upside down.
Theron, descendant of Heracles and leader of the Argonauts,
has followed his future Queen and wife to a human strip
club and for the life of him he can't figure out why she is
there. As he carries her out of the club, they are
surrounded by daemons sent by a Goddess to destroy the
future Queen of Argolea so she can rule their realm. Theron
uses the last of his power reserve to send his fiancé home,
which leaves him vulnerable to the daemons. Then a human
woman comes to his rescue, scares off the creatures and
takes him to her home to heal. The emotions she evokes in
him are dangerous and impossible to ignore until he sees
her mark.
Elisabeth Naughton's MARKED gives an incredibly
fresh spin on Greek Mythology that is full of humor,
action, passion and a storyline that keeps you from putting
down the book. I'm totally hooked!
THERON – Dark haired, duty bound and deceptively deadly.
He’s the leader of the Argonauts, an elite group of
guardians that defends the immortal realm from threats of
the Underworld.
From the moment he walked into the club, Casey knew this guy
was different. Men like that just didn’t exist in real
life—silky shoulder-length hair, chest impossibly broad, and
a predatory manner that just screamed dark and dangerous. He
was looking for something. Her.
She was the one. She had the mark. Casey had to die so his
kind could live, and it was Theron’s duty to bring her in.
But even as a 200-year-old descendent of Hercules, he wasn’t
strong enough to resist the pull in her fathomless eyes, to
tear himself away from the heat of her body.
As war with the Underworld nears, someone will have to make
the ultimate sacrifice.
Excerpt
LOSING IT ALL
Theron brushed a finger down Acacia’s cheek, watched her
back rise and fall in deep sleep. Studied the way her
lashes formed spiky crescent shapes on her pale cheeks. Her
courage still awed him. Last night she’d been ready to take
him on. There was no other female in the universe who would
dare stand up to him when he was in one of his moods, but
it hadn’t stopped her. She was fearless. And as selfless as
he’d told the king. Everything he’d never wanted but now
couldn’t imagine living without.
He’d known she was his from the first taste. Long before
he’d ever slid deep inside her. If he’d been more in tune
with his humanity, he would have recognized it the first
time he’d kissed her back in her small house. But he
hadn’t. Because he’d needed her to unlock that side of him
he’d always repressed.
She was his curse. His soul mate. His life. And there
wasn’t a damn thing he could do to keep her from dying.
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