They called her the mortal who dared to touch a god's light. They weren't wrong. After her last Coast Guard mission in the North Atlantic totally went to hell, Emmie McClare got a medal, a forced retirement, and a less-than-polite order to keep quiet. Kinda hard to do when the "incident" also left her with the power to short-circuit the sun. If you've been following Blood and Tide, you know Emmie was the unlucky Avenger who fell under Loki's mind control and nearly leveled New York. You also know about the man with the metal arm-the one who saved her life just for her to blast him to the bottom of the ocean. The man she can't stop seeing every time her hands light up. Now she's followed Thor to Asgard, a realm of impossible skies and inconvenient gods, where her power is no longer a miracle but a threat. Under Heimdall's watch, she's learning what it means to see light in all its forms-how it remembers, how it judges, how it burns. But when the truth behind the Light Eternal comes to the surface, Emmie finds herself caught between gods and ghosts, loyalty and temptation, light and shadow. And to survive, she'll have to do what no mortal has: bend the light without letting it burn her alive. This story falls between chapters 25 and 26 of Blood and Tide. By all means, jump in without a life jacket if you want. But the Coast Guard won't be there to rescue you from this one.
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