Of Fate and Fire — Amanda Bouchet

The Kingmaker Chronicles meets modern-day New York CityPiers, an exiled warrior from Thalyria, finds himself in the Big Apple just before the holidays. The world and everything in it might be utterly foreign to him, but that won't stop Piers from helping to complete a vital mission for Athena. His goal? To protect Sophie, a French teacher from Connecticut who's suddenly knee-deep in inexplicable phenomena, danger, and henchmen after an Olympian treasure that should never have ended up in her hands—or remained on Earth after the Greek gods abandoned it.Of Fate and Fire is a novella (book 3.5) in The Kingmaker Chronicles series. It first appeared in the Fire of the Frost anthology.The Kingmaker Chronicles:A Promise of Fire (Book 1)Breath of Fire (Book 2)Heart on Fire (Book 3)A Curse of Queens (A Kingmaker Chronicles novel, Book 1)