Once Upon A Goddess

ONCE UPON A GODDESS
Author: Chris Stevenson
Release Date: November 2007
Publisher: Rain Publishing
http://www.rainbooks.com/

What happens when you’ve lost everything in the world and even life doesn’t seem worth living? You should have remembered that luck is a real lady, and she’s on her way to the rescue!

Felicity Fortune, the Roman Goddess of Luck, interrupts Mason Hart’s suicidal plans in the nick of time. It seems she was hampered by the bird flu and few other appointments, but it’s better late than never. She tells Mason that he’s ripe for a cosmic alignment and that his 15 minutes of fame and wealth are finally at hand. He is allotted six chances via the roll of the golden dice for his deserved share of the “Great Cornucopia.”

But as a result of Felicity’s tardiness, the cosmic alignment is about to unravel.

Beshaba, the Maid of Misfortune, has ear-marked Mason at the exact same time, to heap upon him the bad luck part of the equation. She is the evil incarnate daughter of Felicity, and now covets Mason for her own devious alignment. And everything that Beshaba represents is in stark contrast to her mother. It is a deliberate ploy to spite the good works of Felicity, thus laying down a challenge of cosmic power.

So Beshaba sends her minions to chase Mason Hart across the country to ruin and foul every fortune he accumulates. Mason enlists the aid of a big, clumsy cop, who’s convinced that he’s on a whirlwind vacation, until he realizes that beautiful women are popping out of cosmic portals and the minions of hell are just one step behind.

Their simultaneous claim to Mason forces the two Goddesses into a mythological cat fight in hell. He must discover the ultimate selfless act that will turn the tide in favor of the Goddess he loves. More importantly, he must find the solution and tear away the veil of darkness that could upset the divine balance between good and evil. But what Mason doesn’t know is that the final key is himself.

Oh, and Mason forgot one cardinal rule: you’re not supposed to fall in love with a Goddess.

Anyone who has enjoyed the storylines of Date With An Angel, Manikin, and Splash, will delight in this urban fantasy.

Also by this author:
WORD WARS

The future doesn’t look so bright. In fact, it’s pretty stupid. Mikus Markus, a lowly language mentor, has got to smarten up the United Western Enterprise. Fast.

The FCC, in the year 2115, is now comprised of law enforcement officers, who use terror and coercive interrogation to keep its people bottled up and suppressed. For a hundred years the written word has been forbidden and a new color bar language has been installed to safeguard the government’s super-tech discoveries. The United Western Enterprise becomes the supreme world power, isolating themselves from all foreign country contact and trade. All science journals and even the Declaration of Independence have been edited to "dumb down" the public. Society falls into catastrophic depression and neurosis. Executions and mayhem against the populace becomes rampant.

The newest discovery, Project Lift, galvanizes the Western Enterprise to further its vicious grip on the populace. Mail carriers are given the authority to break-and-enter private homes looking for any written word (contraband). There's talk of a preemptive strike against the Eastern Allegiance to "wipe them from the other side of the globe." Mikus Harold Markus decides that society has had enough. He learns of his own government's treachery against its citizens and must now lead a rebellion called CAT (citizens against tyranny). He must lead a clandestine rebel force that will motivate the people to rise up and reform the government and insure global peace. His mission: to find a 118-year-old African American man, Methuselah, who is rumored to be the last citizen left alive, who knows how to read and write. Only the government “Slugs” are not about to let that happen.

Anyone who has enjoyed the storylines of Fahrenheit 451, Logan’s Run, and A Brave New World, will delight in this futuristic thriller.