“In his idle hours, Heusler sometimes amused himself by trying to conceive of a crime a mortal man could commit that was more monstrous than making a goddess fall in love with him. He had never succeeded.”

—  M. K. Hobson

Prologue (p. 14)
The Hidden Goddess (2011)

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