The Mistress of the Night - The Children of the Darkness, #0 - E-book - ePub

THE CHILDREN OF THE DARKNESS " The darkness flows through their veins. The night is their mother. Yet, in spite of everything, they will be attracted by the very thing they most despise ." In a world dominated by the primordial deities, and where the reign of Zeus is still far off, there is a goddess of whom everyone is afraid, even Urano himself, who as she enters a room, is capable of plunging everything into darkness: Nyx, daughter of Phanes and Callyginis, the goddess of night. As mysterious and beautiful as she is dark and terrible, Nyx has always lived in solitude.
All the deities avoid her except Emera, her sister and goddess of the day, Gea, goddess of the earth and her only friend, and Selene, goddess of the moon, who follows her in the darkest hours. And all living things fear her, because when she crosses the sky on top of her black horse-drawn chariot, darkness envelops Creation like a cloak and unleashes the deepest fears. However, when, at a banquet organized by Gea to celebrate the birth of Melisia, her last daughter, her gaze crosses that of Erebo, the god who rules over the darkness of the infernal depths, her destiny will change forever. In fact, Erebo, after seeing her only once, will do anything to have her by his side, even going so far as to concoct an ingenious plan without the knowledge of the terrible goddess of the night. What he does not know is that Nyx has also noticed him and is ready to commit all kinds of subterfuges to bind him to herself, including locking him up in her cave and enforcing a law, as old as the world, that she has hitherto always hated... From the authoress of "Swiss tales: fairy tales and legends from whole Switzerland", the beginning of a new romance saga that will transport you back thousands of years, to the time of the myths told in Hesiod's Theogony, and into a world of darkness, passions, revenge and fierce battles, where love and hate have no defined boundaries. "The Mistress of the Night" is the first book, as well as the prequel novel, of "The Children of the Darkness" series, but it can also be read as a stand-alone novel. Warning: the reading of the book, due to the presence of some explicit content, is recommended for readers over 14 years old.