Tournament of Thieves

For a thousand years, the outside world meant nothing to the Norse trickster god, Loki, and his devoted wife, Sigyn. The little prison inside the cavern in which Loki was chained was everything. Neither of them seemed to care anymore about what happened outside the cave.

But when Thor, god of thunder, appears with a proposition for Loki, they are thrust back into the real world. Loki is tasked with tracking down the thief of Freya's necklace, Brisingamen. No one else knows where the thief could be hiding; Odin cannot even find him from his throne. And since whoever holds Brisingamen holds violent sway over Freya, the Aesir send their old problem-solver - and problem-causer - to find their new enemy. It takes a thief to catch a thief, right?

Loki's quest won't be as easy as he believes, for the thief inhabits one of the most powerful and magic-ridden places in the Nine Worlds. As he ventures out into a world that is both familiar and foreign to him, he must follow the thief into the one place he hates above all others.

Home.

Open Novella Contest 2019 entry, and on the Round 3 Long List.
A fantasy finalist in the Writer's Circle Awards 2019.
Honorable Mention in Fantasy in the Shadow City Awards.

Reviews: "I don't really know where the myth ends and your story starts, and that's what makes it great"..."Well written and entertaining!"

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#1 in Skadi 8/31/19
#1 in Sigyn 9/27/19
#9 in Trickster 1/16/19
#11 in Norse Mythology 1/16/19
#14 in Odin 1/16/19
#16 in Myths 1/16/19
#22 in Thief 1/16/19
#100 in Mythology 1/16/19
#132 in Gods 1/16/19
#236 in Loki 1/16/19