Heroes aren't meant to act like their villains -- or fall in love with them. The elements touch everyone on Earth -- Fire, Water, even Light -- but every so often someone becomes more attuned to their elemental leaning and develops true power. When an evil Elemental known as Thanatos arrived in Olympus City, it saw the rise of its first hero -- Zeus. But the death toll caused by defeating Thanatos changed Zeus, who by day is young detective Danny Grant. It's been six months since Thanatos terrorized the city at the start of Lovesick Gods. Danny should be used to his duty behind the mask, but the recent past haunts him. His girlfriend left him, he snaps at the barest provocation, his life feels empty -- he needs an outlet, any outlet to pull him out of his depression. Enter notorious thief Malcolm Cho, the Ice Elemental Prometheus. There was a time when Danny welcomed a fight with Cho, filled with colorful banter and casual flirtations that were a relief compared to Thanatos. Even as a criminal, Cho had recognized the threat Thanatos posed and promised to help Danny stop him, but the day Danny needed Cho, he never showed. Cho was the reason so many people died that day -- including Danny's mother. Danny decides to teach the man a lesson and fan the fire of their attraction into something more. At worst, he'll get some no-strings-attached sex out of the deal and finally blow off steam; at best, he'll get Cho to fall in love with him and then break his heart to spite him. Danny doesn't expect to fall for Cho in the process, and he certainly can't predict the much darker threat on the horizon.

Lovesick Gods

“Sure, Zeus,” Ludgate chuckled in pure amusement, “but you’ll never find me. Just like you’ll never find your way out. See, I can use any of the mirrors here. But you can only exit out the mirror you came in through. Do you know which one it is?”


Peeking his head up out of the duster, Danny looked around. The mirrors were everywhere. There was no discernable incline or decline in the darkness, but he could tell that some of the more distant mirrors were higher up or beneath him. Otherwise, they all looked the same. 


“All of these mirrors connect to the material world, Zeus. Mirrors, other surfaces with strong enough reflections, I can reach them all, but you can’t. You’d starve and waste away before you ever got close to finding your way home. It would take an eternity to explore the vastness of this world without my powers.”


“Your powers?” Danny breathed, dazed and grimacing as his wounds struggled to heal when he was so tired. “They’re more than traveling through mirrors?”


Chapter 100