Dark Descendant (Nikki Glass Series)
Jenna Black
Language: English
Pages: 336
ISBN: 1451606796
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
From the acclaimed author of the Morgan Kingsley, Exorcist books comes the gripping first novel in a new series about a private eye who discovers, to her surprise, that she’s an immortal huntress.
Nikki Glass can track down any man. But when her latest client turns out to be a true descendant of Hades, Nikki now discovers she can’t die. . . . Crazy as it sounds, Nikki’s manhunting skills are literally god-given. She’s a living, breathing descendant of Artemis who has stepped right into a trap set by the children of the gods. Nikki’s new “friends” include a descendant of Eros, who uses sex as a weapon; a descendant of Loki, whose tricks are no laughing matter; and a half-mad descendant of Kali who thinks she’s a spy. But most powerful of all are the Olympians, a rival clan of immortals seeking to destroy all Descendants who refuse to bow down to them. In the eternal battle of good god/bad god, Nikki would make a divine weapon. But if they think she’ll surrender without a fight, the gods must be crazy. . . .
The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, Book 3)
Odyssey of the Gods: The History of Extraterrestrial Contact in Ancient Greece
The Age of Odin (Pantheon Triptych, Book 3)
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
Autumn Bones (Agent of Hel, Book 2)
deep, skin-cancer tan, and in the handful of times I’d seen him, he’d always been wearing torn jeans and a short-sleeved T-shirt, despite the cold. I shook off my fear and narrowed my eyes at him. “Has Anderson ordered you guys to take turns coming to see me, or what?” I asked. Unless there was another cultist I wasn’t aware of, I had now met all but one of the men Emmitt had had me “investigating.” Jack’s grin didn’t falter. “If Anderson had ordered me to come down here and talk to you, I
apartments are,” Maggie continued, gesturing to the left and then starting up the next set of stairs. “Jack, Leo, and I all have rooms on the third floor.” “I haven’t met Leo yet,” I said. I was beginning to think he was a bit of a recluse, because even when I’d been in the process of investigating Emmitt’s so-called “cult,” I’d rarely caught sight of him. “He’s not very sociable,” Maggie responded. “He’s a descendant of Hermes, who was a god of commerce. If we didn’t remind him to eat and
indifferent as I wanted to be. “I really am sorry about that,” I found myself saying, though it made me feel like a wuss. Blake waved off my apology. “As Anderson pointed out, I had it coming. If I’d left my attitude in the car, I probably could have persuaded you to come with me without the strong-arm tactics.” I was momentarily at a loss for words. This was not the reaction I’d expected from him. “Alexis brings out the worst in me,” Blake continued. “When I saw him sitting there with you, I
believe, especially those of us who were Olympians for a time.” I took a deep breath, wishing it would settle my nerves. “How the hell can he survive being beheaded?” “He can’t. That’s the point.” “You know what I mean!” I snapped, nerves making my temper brittle. Luckily, Maggie wasn’t put off by my snappishness. “It’s magic, Nikki. I don’t know exactly how he’ll come back. All I know is that he will.” I was saved from further embarrassing myself when Anderson entered the clearing, closely
hope you do, but that won’t really prove anything—except that Konstantin’s desperate enough to get a spy inside that he’s willing to give up Emma.” My shoulders slumped. “So what you’re saying is there’s no way you’re ever going to believe me, no matter what I do.” It shouldn’t matter so much. I knew I hadn’t killed Emmitt on purpose. What did it matter if Jamaal thought the worst of me? And yet, it did matter to me. His suspicions had never bothered me when he was acting like a raving lunatic,
