He was never meant for an ordinary life.

 

She had stopped believing escape was possible.

 

He’s dangerously charming, mischievous, and prophesied to walk between worlds.

 

She trusts no one, harbors too many secrets, and refuses to need a man.

 

Until fate forces them together.

 

Tracy grew comfortable with the peace that fell over the land after the Battle for the Throne, but not with the grief still clinging to his broken heart. He trained relentlessly for over a year, sharpening his powers and silencing his mind, hoping strength would heal the wound of loving someone who chose another. Standing before the World Tree to celebrate his best friend’s union, he’s reminded that love is not in his foreseeable future. But when an unknown force shatters the ceremony and splits the ground open, claiming the bride and groom, he learns destiny is. Tracy’s path leads him into the heart of Hel to rescue his friends, retrieve the Book of the Dead, and straight to the doorstep of the one woman who will challenge his every move.

 

Skylar was condemned to eternal damnation with no hope of escape until the day Tracy walked into her life. She assumes he is just another infuriating, albeit ruggedly handsome, chain that binds her when her father forces her to escort him across the Underworld. It doesn’t escape her notice that he walked into the realm with nothing more than the clothing on his back and a massive ego on his shoulder. But after her father recites the prophecy he has long kept from her, she realizes he also wears the key to unlocking Hel’s Gate around his neck. Or so she thinks.

 

Tracy doesn’t trust her from the start. Her tenacity rivals the flames of Hel, yet her golden hair and blue eyes are too angelic for a world born of darkness—and beauty like that has always gotten him into trouble. As his own hidden truths simmer beneath the surface, desire and suspicion knot into a deception that uncovers the cruelest twist of all: Skylar already carries the book he was tasked to destroy.

 

Neither is willing to yield nor fully trust the other. Tension expands between them, fragile alliances are forged in necessity rather than faith, and in Hel, every sin demands reckoning. At the edge of the Phlegethon, with Tartarus looming beyond, the Furies emerge from shadow and flame to render their judgement. 

 

And if the avenging spirits deem their sins unforgivable, neither of them will leave the Underworld alive.

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Recommended readers: Adults 18+ years

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A Web of Fire and Deceit, book 1 of The Legends of Yggdrasil, is a dark fantasy romance novel. Inside, you will find:

• Romantasy

• Rivals-to-lovers

• Slow burn 

• Across the Nine Realms

• Fated by prophecy

• Morally gray characters

• Mild to medium spice

• A journey of love, loss, and survival

• … and more!

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