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Two broken souls. One twisted thread of fate. Echo is a heartbroken nymph trying to believe in love. Narcissus is a confused mortal, trying to avoid love. The fates conspire to weave their fates together but this is not a love story, it is a tragedy that will echo through the ages.

Deep in the labyrinth of Ancient Greek mythology, a new tale emerges, filled with intrigue, heartbreak and deceit: “The Fall of Icarus”. In this heartbreaking tale, the lives of father and son are revealed like never before. The famed Daedalus, inventor and genuis, mastermind of the labyrinth. His son, the ill-fated Icarus, who flew too close to the sun. But what is the truth behind these two characters? Discover the path of the father and the flight of the son. Daedalus's story begins with a tragedy that forces him to flee his homeland and seek refuge in Knossos with the notorious King Minos.

Jake Perlman’s fate changed forever as a child when a dam broke on the way to school, washing his bus over a bridge. Before the Angel of Death could claim him, a Shepherd named Omiel stole Jake from his fate. Now as a Stolen in his adulthood, Jake uses his powers under Omiel’s guidance to assemble his coterie, a group of Stolen with abilities like his. Yael Taube learned in her youth she would become a Companion, the soulmate to a Stolen. After an unfortunate event finds Yael in the presence of her Stolen, Jake, things take motion.

Nikias is amazed by the speed of Alkides, who he races against in the Isthmian games. He even wonders if the older boy is the god Apollo in disguise. At Delphi, where they race again, he realizes Alkides is only a boy, although a rather amazing boy. While in Delphi, Nikias receives a disturbing prophecy from the oracle and his life and that of Alkides become entwined. Nikias knows that he must lose all he loves to gain the deepest desire of his heart, but what is that desire and is it worth the cost?

Army Air Corps doctor Jack Monroe was performing his usual duties in an army hospital in England soon after the end of World War II. Monroe along with French, British and Soviet doctors is ordered to witness the autopsy of a Nazi bureaucrat. What starts as a routine assignment leads him into a world of intrigue, romance and mortal danger.