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Peridot #3

by Tyree Campbell

Mars sends his avatars to wrest the magic talisman from Peridot. To lure her into a trap, those avatars include two men she's interested in. Worse, they threaten her friends Stéphanie and Nathalie. Peridot, whose human name is Ricia Ryder, takes them to the springs in northern France, where Sequana, the Celtic goddess who empowers Peridot, has a long-dormant shrine. Peridot activates the shrine, and people come from nearby hamlets to seek cures for their infirmities.
Mars, however, is focused on the talisman. He abducts Ricia and takes her to Mount Olympus, where there is a confrontation with Zeus regarding proprieties in battles between gods.
Stéphanie, meanwhile, learns a secret about Ricia that threatens to tear apart the friendship among the three women. Peridot, who seeks to do some good in the world, may not be able to do this for much longer-not if Stéphanie, a journalist, has also become an avatar of Mars.

142 pages, Paperback

Published May 28, 2020

About the author

Tyree Luck Campbell III is a retired U.S. Army translator with some 100 stories and two dozen poems [including a 2003 Rhysling finalist] published to date. His first novel, Nyx, about an assassin who rediscovers her emotions while on assignment on a strange world and is now a series, with a 3rd novel forthcoming in 2012. His second novel is The Dog At The Foot Of The Bed, an epic SF tale of love and revenge across space and time, and also available at that site. He is also the Managing Editor of Sam’’s Dot Publishing, and invites you to http://www.samsdotpublishing.com .