Mythology and legendary stories were made to entertain and hopefully make sense of the world. That doesn’t mean they speak on truth. Many times history is written by the victors, and mythology often was written to the detriment of what was considered the villains of that time.

How do I know this? From personal experience is how. My name is Xivani Stone, and I am a Gorgon. Yes, you guessed it – I’m one of those monstrous women creatures from mythology that was said to turn anyone to stone that looked upon our faces. Our most famous Gorgon sister was Medusa – made into a monster by a god and condemned to a life of misery.

Thankfully, there’s enough good people in the world that another god lessened that curse and let us become healers instead . . . most of the time anyway.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t still bad people in the world – humans, gods, and Supernaturals (or other creatures of the night).

It’s those villains with bad hearts and bad intentions that we fight. Shockingly enough, I’ve met my mate – Scorn – and his league of scorpion men assassins who were made to protect the world from the evil threatening to consume it.

There are plenty of bad actors – humans, gods, creatures that go bump in the night – is it any wonder that the rest of us are struggling to defeat the darkness? Even with the help of the half-human/half-angel hybrid – the Arcana – I still wonder if the world be strong enough to survive an evil that will never die – hatred.