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    Gods Behaving Badly (Book One)
    Gods Behaving Badly (Book One)
    Gods Behaving Badly (Book One)
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    Gods Behaving Badly (Book One)

    By Mickey Ann

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    Hecate (Cate) is a fallen goddess pining over the loss of her soul to Hades. How does an immortal trapped in a human body cope with ennui and a persistent ex? She does what every human does, of course. She drinks too much and sees her therapist once a week. Pithy and sadly lacking in social skills, Cate is determined to make the most of her ordinary life, even if Hades has other plans for her.

    Hades is determined to keep her soul until he's "gotten over" the injury Cate caused his beloved wife, Persephone. The ex, Ares, seems determined to be a part of Cate's life even if she wants nothing to do with him. She blames him for her predicament and knows he's the one thing she wants more than her soul.

    Complicating matters is the war she's trying to avoid with her ex-best friend, Isis, now queen of the vampires, and the war that's always threatening to brew over between Ares and Bacchus, Cate's best friend. Bach and Cate are just friends, so why does Ares and Bach seem to be fighting over her? All Cate wants is to do her job, go home to her dog, and live out the next hundred years until Hades decides she deserves her soul back.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMickey Ann
    Release dateSep 27, 2016
    ISBN9781370499786
    Gods Behaving Badly (Book One)
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    Mickey Ann

    Mickey Ann is a Trekkie, a yoga lover and social butterfly. Only one of these things is true so clearly she’s also a liar.A liar? Well, that makes sense, since she is a recovering lawyer.Since hanging up her lawyer’s hat, she has has ghostwritten for others. This is her debut novel.Gods Behaving Badly (Book II)—Fall 2016Gods Behaving Badly (Book III)—Spring 2017The Weight of Rope–Spring 2017

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      Gods Behaving Badly (Book One) - Mickey Ann

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgement

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Preview of Book Two (Isis)

      About Mickey Ann

      Other Books by Mickey Ann

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      Acknowledgement

      For Curtina Renee—First Fan and Best Friend—Rest in peace, Baby Girl.

      Chapter One

      Throughout the ages I had been known by many names. Ares’ whore. Bacchus’s muse. Goddess of witchcraft and magic. Hekata. Hecate.

      Cate was what I called myself.

      Even after almost eighty years, I still hadn’t recovered from my fall from grace. It had made me ordinary. Not quite human, but ordinary, nonetheless. I had an apartment. I paid rent. And, when I could afford it, I even ate.  

      I didn’t know if I was fooling myself, but I believed that if I could carry on like this for another hundred years, Hades would eventually get over it and return my soul. But already the world had crushed me. I was tired of the rankness that greeted me each time I rode the subway and I was tired of enduring the human tendency to inquire about my well-being.

      I didn’t say any of this out loud, however. Taking the first empty chair in the circle, I stuffed the extra cookies in my pocket, daring anyone to call me out on it. They shouldn’t put the cookies out there to tempt me if they hadn’t meant for me to eat them.  

      I needed these anger meetings, though I would never admit this out loud to anyone. I had always been a carefree girl before I lost my soul. Perhaps my soul had made me tolerable to be around. Now, I was full of resentment for this ordinary life I was living. Yet, I was conflicted about whether I wanted to be restored to my former glory.

      I just wasn’t very good at being human—I really didn’t like anyone or anything much these days.

      So, Cate, is this the night you finally tell us why you’re here?

      The group leader asked the same question every night, and every night I gave him the same answer. I hung my silence around his neck and gave him my usual thousand-yard stare. He ducked his head before moving on to the next person.  

      I desperately needed a drink and a cigarette. My finger itched for it and I seriously thought about bumming one off the girl sitting next to me. I needed the cigarette, but not the conversation that came with it as she tried to bond with me over our love of cancer.  

      As usual, I left the meeting early, right about the time they ran out of coffee and cookies. It didn’t matter to me that it was close to midnight. I walked with my head down in my normal way, seemingly completely oblivious to my surroundings. But then I ducked into an alley suddenly, trying to shake whoever had been following me since I left the meeting. It wasn’t anyone from the meeting. That much I could tell, plus the hairs on my arms were standing on end. The instinct to cut and run should have disgusted me. But it didn’t.

      Because I had no soul, I rarely felt anything, and the fact that I could feel anything at all was fascinating.

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