Threat of Magic (Dragon's Gift: The Amazon Book 4)

by Linsey Hall

  Anatlia, the realm of the Greek gods, is total fiction. I invented it for Nix’s series. However, most of the qualities of the realms within Hades were taken almost directly from primary sources.

  There are no sources that I could find that reference the Stryx as worshipping Hecate. Though Hecate does dwell in the underworld alongside Persephone, she does not have her own horrible realm as I presented it.

  When Rowan and Maximus entered Hades through the bottomless Alcyonian Lake at Lerna, they spotted a three headed Hydra underwater. This was a reference to the famous Hydra that Hercules fought during his famous labors. The Alcyonian Lake is considered to be one of the entrances to Hades, and the Hydra lived in that lake until Hercules killed it. The Hydra that Rowan and Maximus encountered was a descendent, and I like to think that it was a younger one as it had fewer heads.

  I think that’s it for the history and mythology in Threat of Magic—at least the big things. I hope you enjoyed the book and will come back for more of Rowan, Maximus, Ana and Bree!

  To Lisa and Rick, with love.

  Acknowledgments

  Thank you, Ben, for everything. There would be no books without you.

  Thank you to Jena O’Connor and Lindsey Loucks for your excellent editing. The book is immensely better because of you!

  Thank you to Orina Kafe for the beautiful cover art. Thank you to Collette Markwardt for allowing me to borrow the Pugs of Destruction, who are real dogs named Chaos, Havoc, and Ruckus. They were all adopted from rescue agencies.

  About Linsey

  Before becoming a writer, Linsey Hall was a nautical archaeologist who studied shipwrecks from Hawaii and the Yukon to the UK and the Mediterranean. She credits fantasy and historical romances with her love of history and her career as an archaeologist. After a decade of tromping around the globe in search of old bits of stuff that people left lying about, she settled down and started penning her own romance novels. Her Dragon’s Gift series draws upon her love of history and the paranormal elements that she can't help but include.

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All reference to events, persons, and locale are used fictitiously, except where documented in historical record. Names, characters, and places are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

  Copyright 2018 by Linsey Hall

  Published by Bonnie Doon Press LLC

  All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form, except in instances of quotation used in critical articles or book review. Where such permission is sufficient, the author grants the right to strip any DRM which may be applied to this work.

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  ISBN 978-1-942085-80-5