by Linsey Hall
The Amazons were said to live by the shore of the Black Sea, though I did invent the bit about them almost being thrown into Tartarus. Though they were frequent the enemies of the Greek heroes. I decided to give them a more modern spin and put them in the nearest large city to their ancestral homeland. The drink Raki that Prometheus and Rowan shared is the traditional Turkish liquor that you would find in many bars. I have not had it myself, but my Turkish friend says it is quite the intense beverage.
The location of Atlas’s hideout is based upon the crazy rock formations at Meteora, in Greece. In present day, there are monasteries built on top of the rocks, but for the purposes of the story, Atlas was out there all on his lonesome.
The Oracle at Delphi is one of the most famous oracles in history. She was generally an older peasant woman from the nearby village, and she gave her prophecies from within a small round building at the temple site of Delphi. Some people believed that she spoke the words of Apollo himself.
I think that’s it for the history and mythology in Clash 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 Mary Ann and Bart, 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
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