Spartan Frost (6 page)

In that moment, I made a silent promise to myself that I was going to find my stepmom and make her pay for everything she'd done. Wherever she was hiding, whatever deep, dark hole she was hunkered down in, however many other Reapers she was cowering behind, I was going to track her down and deal with her the way a
real
Spartan would. Agrona wasn't going to hurt anyone else that I cared about.
Never again,
I vowed, my hands curling into hard, tight fists.

Still, the rage burning in my heart was nothing compared to the sudden, horrible, gut-wrenching fear I felt for Gwen and the rest of my friends at Mythos Academy.

Because, now, they were in more danger than ever before—and I didn't know what could be done to save them.

New York Times
bestselling author Jennifer Estep is constantly prowling the streets of her imagination in search of her next fantasy idea. Jennifer writes the Mythos Academy young adult urban fantasy series for Kensington and the Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series for Pocket Books. She is also the author of the Bigtime paranormal romance series.

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What Bad, Bad Things have happened to Gwen and the others at Mythos Academy while Logan's been gone? Turn the page for a sneak peek at
Midnight Frost,
available August 2013.

She and Vivian both turned and looked over their shoulders. I'd been so focused on the two of them that I hadn't realized a third figure was sitting on the steps in the exact center of the amphitheater.

Instead of a robe, shadows wrapped around his body, curling, writhing, and wisping around him like smoke hovering over a fire. Slowly, the darkness began to spread out from him, unrolling like a carpet over the steps, smothering the soft, rainbow flashes of color in the stone, and staining everything a horrible, unending black. All I could see of his features were his eyes—one a vivid blue, the other that burning Reaper red that I hated more than anything else—but I shivered with fear all the same.

Because somehow, someway, Loki, the evil Norse god of chaos, was here at Mythos Academy.

“My lord?” Agrona asked again.

“Proceed,” Loki answered, his voice booming through the auditorium, louder than any clap of thunder. “Kill the Frost girl—now.”

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