I'm trying to save her life. I'm trying to stop the war. But nothing with Marion Ravenscroft is ever easy, and no matter what I do, this world wants to go to war. I'm unused to dealing with human women. Especially the human women who perform a striptease for me when I first meet them . Especially with human women, for whom I feel a strange attraction and craving, as if we knew each other before we met. Especially with human women who don't do a damn thing I tell them. I am Tyr, God of War, son of Odin. I am supposed to be the voice of sanity. Among my brothers, I am the one who keeps people from destroying themselves by maintaining peace between their groups. Yet it was Loki who sent me on this mission when his young wife stumbled upon a plot to kidnap the daughter of the President of the United States. It was supposed to be an easy way to stop the war. Easy tracking. Ordinary rescue. I hand Marion over to her father, and then deal with the dark forces trying to harm her. But Marion will not allow me to save her. She may also be the reason I finally lose my composure.