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      Icebound

       Mortals & Myths Book One

      CORINNA ROGERS

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperImpulse 2014

      Copyright © Corinna Rogers 2014

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction.

      The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are

      the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to

      actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is

      entirely coincidental.

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      To the 10,000 miles between us that made this book necessary.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       First Interlude

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

      

       Second Interlude

      

       Chapter Five

      

       Third Interlude

      

       Chapter Six

      

       Fourth Interlude

      

       Chapter Seven

      

       Fifth Interlude

      

       Chapter Eight

      

       Chapter Nine

      

       Sixth Interlude

      

       Chapter Ten

      

       Chapter Eleven

       Coming Soon From Corinna Rogers…

      

       Corinna Rogers

      

       About HarperImpulse

      

       About the Publisher

       Chapter One

      Ice creeps up the window, spider-webbing out to cover the glass pane completely. Shane watches it, amused, because it’s better than watching the ceiling, waiting for the knock on his door. The TV is on, some shitty program about parenthood and people who shouldn’t be allowed within five hundred yards of it, and for a second it’s a struggle to remember why he shouldn’t just throw it out the window.

      The knock is tentative at first, soft, and that pisses him off. “Get in here.”

      The man who enters is tall, just over six feet, and broadly muscled, enough that he’d be able to toss the TV out the window with one hand and little effort. He’s got an open, honest face, smooth and darker-skinned than Shane, whether from his mother’s Portuguese heritage or his own tendency to forget about sunscreen whenever he leaves the house. His hair falls in dark-brown waves to the top of his back, accenting the strength in his chin, his

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