About This Book"What fool believes that any Demon would choose happiness and forgiveness?! Obviously, I am the one Demon in all of creation who is that ridiculously foolish!"Odin has spent his entire adult life hiding himself away. Not from any one being, he has never feared anyone. He hides from memories. Those memories lay at the very core of all the bitterness that made him who he is. Well, memories and the fact that he is an Ice Demon. An Ice Demon who was long ago betrayed by a young girl he'd once considered the most important individual in the world. She'd shown him without a doubt how very little he was worth. She'd confirmed with her actions that he would never be more than a terrifying creature of the dark - and he'd been crushed. Oh, she wasn't the first to hurt him, but she was certainly the last. He'd rushed away from her, bearing the humiliation of her rejection as he swore to himself that no other being would ever be given the chance to get the better of him in any way. And they hadn't. He'd thought of her over the years, but not once had he lain eyes on her again. He remembered her in only one light... the destroyer of all trust.Why then, had the urgings of those on the outer edges of his life begun to irritate him like a nagging parasite nibbling at the edge of a festering wound? Their words kept him up at night. He could hear the words the ancient, Lily, had spoken to him, as she chided him. "You should go to her, Odin. You think she's gone on with her life and forgotten all about you. You couldn't be more wrong. You're her last hope." The more he thought of it, the angrier it made it him. He snarled as his thoughts were angrily voiced. "If I'm her last hope, she is pitifully mistaken if she believes that I would ever offer her a hand of protection!" As he shoved Lily's words of warning away from his psyche, the softly worded suggestions of a friend's new mate nudged at the edge of his consciousness with their sickly, sweet intent. "You should find her. Tell her why you disappeared so that you can have forgiveness and choose happiness." "What fool believes that any Demon would choose happiness and forgiveness?!" Odin bellowed. Stomping noisily through the dense undergrowth and musty, damp carpet of decomposing leaves quickly taking on a sheen of ice beneath his feet, he became more and more disgusted with himself as he realized where his path was leading - away from Whispers. "Obviously, I am the one Demon in all of creation who is that ridiculously foolish!" He lifted his face to the darkened sky and let out a heart-stopping scream, then searched within himself for the fragile end of the microscopic thread of connection he'd intentionally allowed to languish all his life. Seizing on it buried deep inside, he followed it to its other end, and the female it had always, despite every effort to the contrary on his part, been connected to. Soon he'd see for himself why he was being urged to go to her. He'd let her know he was there, then he'd walk away. Or would he? Maybe he'd leave her to suffer. Maybe he'd stay and watch her suffer. Or maybe, just maybe, his heart would thaw just enough for him to rescue the female who'd once been the reason his heart had shattered in the first place.This book is ninth in the Whispers From the Bayou series, and is best enjoyed after familiarizing yourself with the rest of the series first.This book is a work of fiction.