Elleanore Woods

Myths, Murder & Love

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Thallia Laskari came to Olympia Springs to inherit a house. She didn’t expect a murder, a sheriff she can’t stop thinking about, or the unsettling realization that she dreamed of the victim’s death before it happened. After discovering her boyfriend has been stealing her work and giving it to his lover, thirty-two-year-old journalist and photographer Thallia Blackwood is ready to leave Chicago behind. An unexpected inheritance gives her the perfect excuse. Her beloved great-grandmother Evalyn has left behind nearly eight million dollars and a beautiful river-stone house in the Utah desert. There’s just one problem. Thallia had always believed Evalyn lived near Moab. Instead, the house sits outside Olympia Springs, an isolated little town that barely seems to exist online. The locals know more about Evalyn than Thallia does, strangers seem to recognize something in her that she doesn’t understand, and everyone has a slightly different answer when she asks why Olympia Springs is so difficult to find. Then there’s Sheriff Leonidas Argos. Leon is calm, capable, infuriatingly observant, and far too attractive for a woman who has sworn off complicated men. He also seems to know something about Thallia’s family that he isn’t telling her. Their attraction is immediate. Trust will take considerably longer. Before Thallia even reaches Olympia Springs, she begins having strange dreams. Fragments of fear. Water. Darkness. A death she cannot quite see. Then she meets the man from those dreams. Alive. Hours later, he is murdered. Thallia has spent her career asking questions people would rather avoid, and walking away from this one isn’t in her nature. But investigating a murder in Olympia Springs means working beside Leon and discovering that this charming desert town has been keeping secrets for generations. Some are human. Some are considerably older. Because the myths Thallia grew up believing were stories never disappeared. The gods adapted. Their descendants survived. Ancient blood still runs through modern families, carrying gifts that have weakened through the centuries but never entirely vanished. And Thallia has inherited something of her own. Something connected to death. As murder after murder draws her deeper into Olympia Springs, Thallia must uncover killers using evidence, instinct, and the investigative skills that made her a successful journalist, while slowly confronting a truth she never imagined. Her great-grandmother had another life. Her family has been hiding more than she realized. And Olympia Springs may have been waiting for Thallia long before she knew it existed. At her side is Leon, a sheriff with secrets of his own and a family history that reaches straight into Greek mythology. Attraction grows into friendship, friendship into trust, and trust into something neither of them is willing to surrender simply because destiny might have had a hand in bringing them together. Because fate can arrange a meeting. Love still has to be chosen. Myths, Murder & Love is an adult slow-burn romantic mystery filled with murder investigations, small-town secrets, humor, family mysteries, an irresistible sheriff, ancient gods hiding in plain sight, and one journalist who is about to discover that Greek mythology was never mythology at all. Welcome to Olympia Springs. **People who are supposed to find it usually do. Leaving unchanged is another matter.**

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