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Strange Fates
Nyx Fortuna (Related to this series)
- Author
- Marlene Perez
- Narrator
- Jeremy Arthur
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 5 March 2013
- Run Time
- 8 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Brooding, leather jacket-wearing Nyx Fortuna looks like a 20-something, and has for centuries now. As the son of the forgotten fourth Fate, Lady Fortuna, he has been hunted his entire life by the three Sisters of Fate that murdered his mother.
Fed up and out for revenge, Nyx comes to Minneapolis following a tip that his aunts have set up a business there. His goal é to bring down his mother's killers and retrieve the thread of fate that has trapped him in the body of a twenty year old unable to age or die.
But when a chance meeting with the mysterious, dangerous and very mortal Elizabeth Abernathy throws off his plans, he must reconcile his humanity and his immortality.
Critics Review
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"Perez serves up a delicious feast of myth and magic, betrayal and romance, in a mystical version of Minneapolis where nothing is quite what it seems. Skillfully rendered in crisp, edgy prose, STRANGE FATES offers an exciting start to what's sure to be a winning new series. I can't wait to follow the sexy-as-heck Nyx Fortuna into the next installment!"—--Alyson Noël, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE IMMORTALS series, THE RILEY BLOOM series, & THE SOUL SEEKERS series
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"An intriguing protagonist, snappy dialogue, and a fast-paced plot."—Publishers Weekly
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"Nyx is a likable hero and provides a refreshing change from the usual urban fantasy fare."—Library Journal
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"Strange Fates is a page-turner... definitely an appealing read."—New York Journal of Books
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Details
- Author
- Marlene Perez
- Narrator
- Jeremy Arthur
- Duration
- 8 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 March 2013
- ISBN
- 9781619698338
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Contemporary fantasy, Fantasy, Urban fantasy
Synopsis
Greek myth and forbidden romance meet in this exciting new urban fantasy.Brooding, leather jacket-wearing Nyx Fortuna looks like a 20-something, and has for centuries now. As the son of the forgotten fourth Fate, Lady Fortuna, he has been hunted his entire life by the three Sisters of Fate that murdered his mother.Fed up and out for revenge, Nyx comes to Minneapolis following a tip that his aunts have set up a business there. His goal é to bring down his mother's killers and retrieve the thread of fate that has trapped him in the body of a twenty year old unable to age or die.But when a chance meeting with the mysterious, dangerous and very mortal Elizabeth Abernathy throws off his plans, he must reconcile his humanity and his immortality.
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