He’s Had Centuries. She’s Had About Five Minutes.
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You would think a man who has lived for centuries would have a few things figured out.
Especially a man with supernatural abilities, a successful empire, and friends whose names you recognize from history books.
Then the woman he never forgot walks back into his life, and suddenly all those centuries of experience aren’t nearly as useful as he might have hoped.
That’s one of my favorite things about writing Brothers of Odin. Extraordinary people still have very human problems. Being immortal doesn’t mean you know what someone else is thinking. It doesn’t make a difficult conversation easier. And it certainly doesn’t mean the woman you love is going to cooperate with whatever plan you’ve worked out in your head.
Vin has had centuries to get comfortable with his world.
Piper has not.
From her perspective, she had an awesome one-night stand in Vegas and fell in love. That alone was enough to complicate her life. Three years later, she has a daughter, and now she has to figure out how she fits into the life of the man she never forgot.
Except this isn’t just a matter of meeting his friends and finding room in his closet.
She’s suddenly married to a Norse god.
His friends include Leonardo da Vinci and Tesla. Names that belong in a textbook turn out to belong in his social circle. And vampires, werewolves, and the other things that go bump in the night aren’t stories anymore.
They’re real.
Meanwhile, she still has a three-year-old daughter to raise.
There is something wonderfully ridiculous about having to make room in your understanding of the universe for all of that while still being somebody’s mom. Your entire idea of what’s possible has changed, but your child still needs you to be the steady person in her world.
For Vin, the supernatural is familiar. The relationship is the complication.
For Piper, the relationship and the supernatural arrive tangled together. She can’t figure out one without dealing with the other.
And loving him doesn’t automatically make any of it easy to understand.
That’s where the fun is for me as a writer. He knows how his world works, but that doesn’t mean he knows how to explain it to her. She knows the man she fell in love with, but she’s discovering just how much she didn’t know about him.
He’s had centuries.
She’s had about five minutes.
They have some catching up to do.
If you’d like to see where their story begins, you can read the Vegas Viking prologue on Substack.
Read the Vegas Viking Prologue
And if you’d like to follow their daughter Sophia into her own adventure, her story is out now in Rise of the Red Dragon.
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