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  An Eternal Guardians Novella

  By Elisabeth Naughton

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  Erebus–Dark in every sense of the word, a skilled and lethal warrior, and sinfully sexy by design.

  Since the dawn of modern man, Erebus was Hades’ secret weapon in the war between the immortal realms. Until Hades lost the minor god in a bet to his older brother Zeus. For the last hundred years, Erebus has trained Zeus’s Siren warriors in warfare and the sexual arts. But he’s never stopped longing for freedom. For a life filled with choice. And lately, he also longs for one Siren who entranced him during their steamy seduction sessions. A nymph he quickly became obsessed with and who was ripped from his grasp when her seduction training was complete. One he’s just learned Zeus has marked for death because she failed the last Siren test.

  Before Erebus can intercede on the nymph’s behalf, she escapes Olympus and flees into the human realm. In a fit of rage, Zeus commands Erebus to hunt her down and kill her. Erebus sees his opportunity to finally go after what he wants, but he’s torn. Freedom means nothing if the Siren at the center of his fantasies doesn’t truly crave him back. Because defying the gods will unleash the fury of Olympus, and if he chooses her over his duty, whether she joins him in exile or not, the hunter will become the hunted.

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  Ari — Once an Eternal Guardian, now he's nothing but a rogue mercenary with one singular focus: revenge. His guardian brothers all think he’s dead, but he is very much alive in the human realm, chipping away at Zeus’s Sirens every chance he can, reveling in his brutality and anonymity. Until, that is, he abducts the wrong female and his identity is finally exposed. It will take more than the Eternal Guardians, more even than the gods to rein Ari in after everything he’s done. It may just take the courage of one woman willing to stand up to a warrior who’s become a savage.

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  PROMETHEUS – One of the keenest Titans to ever walk the earth. Until, that is, his weakness for the human race resulted in his imprisonment.

  For thousands of years, Prometheus’s only certainty was his daily torture at Zeus’s hand. Now, unchained by the Eternal Guardians, he spends his days in solitude, trying to forget the past. He’s vowed no allegiance in the war between mortal and immortal, but when a beautiful maiden seeks him out and begs for his help, he’s once again powerless to say no. Soon, Prometheus is drawn into the very conflict he swore to avoid, and, to save the maiden’s life, he must choose sides. But she has a secret of her own, and if Prometheus doesn’t discover what she’s hiding in time, the world won’t simply find itself embroiled in a battle between good and evil, it will fall in total domination to Prometheus’s greatest enemy.

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  The leaders of my House want her dead.

  The men I’ve secretly aligned myself with want her punished for screwing up their coup.

  I’ve been sent by both to deal with her, but one look at the feisty redhead and I’ve got plans of my own.

  Before I carry out anyone else’s orders, she’s going to give me what I want. And only when I’m satisfied will I decide if she lives or dies.

  Depending, of course, on just how easily she surrenders...

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  Erebus–Dark in every sense of the word, a skilled and lethal warrior, and sinfully sexy by design.

  Since the dawn of modern man, Erebus was Hades’ secret weapon in the war between the immortal realms. Until Hades lost the minor god in a bet to his older brother Zeus. For the last hundred years, Erebus has trained Zeus’s Siren warriors in warfare and the sexual arts. But he’s never stopped longing for freedom. For a life filled with choice. And lately, he also longs for one Siren who entranced him during their steamy seduction sessions. A nymph he quickly became obsessed with and who was ripped from his grasp when her seduction training was complete. One he’s just learned Zeus has marked for death because she failed the last Siren test.

  Before Erebus can intercede on the nymph’s behalf, she escapes Olympus and flees into the human realm. In a fit of rage, Zeus commands Erebus to hunt her down and kill her. Erebus sees his opportunity to finally go after what he wants, but he’s torn. Freedom means nothing if the Siren at the center of his fantasies doesn’t truly crave him back. Because defying the gods will unleash the fury of Olympus, and if he chooses her over his duty, whether she joins him in exile or not, the hunter will become the hunted.

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  “Since you’re out of bed,” Erebus said, drawing closer, “you must be feeling better.”

  “Better?” Sera inched backward until her spine hit the wall. “I-I wouldn’t say better, per say. Just...worried.”

  Worried? About him? He wished she was, but considering she looked like a cornered animal at the moment, he didn’t believe her for a second. “Well, for what I have planned I don’t really need you better, just able to stand upright.”
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  Her eyes widened. “What you have planned?”

  Was that excitement he heard in her voice? Oh, he definitely liked that.

  He braced a hand against the wall over her shoulder and leaned into all her seductive heat. “Why do you think I nursed you back to health? So we could finish what we started the other day.”

  She sucked in a breath and held completely still. “You don’t mean—”

  “I mean exactly that, female.” He hefted her over his shoulder, ignoring her wiggle and the yelp that passed over her lips, and headed straight for the main staircase. “We have unfinished business, and now that you’re well enough, we’re going to get back to it.”

  Her hands landed against his back. Warm and small and so damn enticing. She tried to push herself upright, but he held on tight to her legs, keeping her immobile as he carried her up the stairs.

  “B—but,” she sputtered. “I have a concussion!”

  “Then I guess you should have stayed in bed.”

  A warm glow emanated from the fireplace in her room as he drew close, bathing the corridor in an eerie orange light. He moved into the room and dropped her to her feet in front of the same corner bedpost he’d tied her to originally, then he reached for the charmed rope that was still wrapped around the wood. “Hold still.”

  “Erebus, you can’t do this!”

  She struggled, but his forearm at her chest kept her immobile as he bound her to the post. When he was done, he stepped back, perched his hands on his hips, and eyed her carefully. “This looks very familiar. Though this time I’m going to do more than just leave you alone to plot your escape.”

  Her eyes shot daggers into his as he grabbed a chair, dragged it in front of her, turned it around and straddled the seat. Resting his forearms on the back, he watched as she struggled to break free. Smirked at the way her long, silky blonde hair fall over her eyes and the delicate skin of her face. And smiled as she grew more outraged by the second.

  “We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way, Sera, but know this, you’re not getting away from me until I’m ready to let you go. And I have no intention of letting you go until you give me what I want.”

  She glared hard in his direction. “I’m not giving you anything. If you want it, you’re going to have to try to take it from me.”

  Excitement pulsed inside him. That was exactly the answer he’d hoped for. After twiddling his thumbs for the last two days, waiting for her heal and regain her strength, he was more than ready for some fun. And if memory served, fun with Sera was hotter than anything he’d had before or since her.

  Grinning, he pushed up off the chair. “I guess we’re doing this the hard way then. Good thing that was my first choice.”

  On behalf of 1001 Dark Nights,

  Liz Berry and M.J. Rose would like to thank ~

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  Table of Contents

  Book Description

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Epilogue