The Goddess & the Woodsman

Book excerpt: Habonde Barleywine – immortal, yet fading, goddess of the hearth – has lost her temples, her acolytes, and many of her key memories. How is she going to persuade other goddesses, like Demeter and Brigid, to support her grand idea for a proxy program, when she needs to put her own house in order? Baubo, goddess of mirth and Habonde’s BFF, offers support in her own bawdy way. But things begin to get complicated as Hades shows up in need of a favor, and Zeus’s ego is threatened. And then there’s Habonde’s unfinished business with the Woodsman and the unsettling fact that he seems to remember every moment of their shared past.