Prologue

No one gets to choose how they are brought into this world, nor how they leave it. The only choice any of us get is how we live in it. Unfortunately, despite one’s best efforts, life doesn’t always go according to plan, as said plans get tossed out the proverbial window faster than a speeding bullet. 

The Gods don’t live by the rules of mortals, forced to follow them for the rest of their very short mortal lives. And when you are a mortal who’s very soul had been sealed away since before your first moon, it only makes things that much harder. 

Try as we might to fight against the hands of fate, if destiny wants you to go down a certain path, she will drag you down it, kicking and screaming the entire way if she has to. So a piece of advice … Hang on for dear life and good luck, you’re going to need it. 

The Goddess of Fortune all but kicked down the walls of her seemingly perfect life to show this one, seemingly insignificant girl the entire world she was missing. Because the truth always has a way of coming to light no matter how hard one tries to hide it.

She just wanted to live her life by the rules, but destiny had other plans. Well you know what they say, Destiny’s a bitch, and there’s nothing you can do about it, especially not some lost nineteen-year-old girl who’s just had her entire life turned upside down and put on an extra spin cycle in the dryer for added measure, because just an ordinary change just wouldn’t do. 

Nineteen is a number that at first glance doesn’t seem to be all that life-changing, and in a normal world, it wouldn’t be. But add that to the overpowering mysteries of the supernatural world with a woman far too young to shoulder its responsibilities and it changes the entire essence of the word.

In either domain, one would think that nineteen was far too young for a single girl to be thrown from the world she knew as a human into the unknown of the supernatural world only to be expected to take on her father’s abandoned throne. But like we said, Destiny’s a bitch. 

Lies and half-truths were all she had ever known… Now with the past coming back to haunt her, and the truth coming to light from the depths of darkness in which it was hidden, she needs to learn the ropes to her new reality and fast.

Responsibility… Alexa thought she knew the meaning of the word, but oh … was she so totally and utterly wrong. Then again, she had been wrong about a lot of things in her life, especially when she learned that she had even been wrong about who, and what she really was… no, no longer was she the simple teenaged girl from South Dakota.

Instead, she was now something else, something more. Something that held more power than she could control, and something she wasn’t sure she was ready to become. But hey, Destiny’s a bitch.