As monsters walk the streets of San Francisco, unseen by humans, three teenaged descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned in Greek mythology, must reunite and embrace their fates.

Two years after her son drowned in a boating accident, Jenna Rosen flies to Alaska to revisit the scene of the tragedy and learns his soul has been imprisoned by Indian spirits. The part-Indian Jenna turns to a shaman to have the soul freed. A first novel.

"Brynhild is a Valkyrie: shieldmaiden of the Allfather, chooser of the slain. But now she too has fallen, flightless in her exile. Gudrun is a princess of Burgundy: a daughter of the Rhine, a prize for an invading king -- a king whose brother Attila has other plans, and a dragon to call upon. And, in the songs to be sung, there is another hero: Sigurd, a warrior with a sword sharper than the new moon. As the legends tell, some are destined to be lovers,...

Torn apart by grief and anger, twin witches Hunter and Mercy Goode go their separate ways until Mercy's focus on the Egyptian Gate and Khenti, the guardian of its Underworld, lands her in the kind of trouble from which only Hunter can save her.