I don't want to give TOO much away, but I wanted some feedback on the general premise...
Asgard, Olympus, and the Ennead (for those who don't have mythology 411, that's a fancy name for the Egyptian deities) are locked in a bitter three-way struggle--but change is on the horizon. Thor, commander of the AESIR (Asgard Elite Special Infantry Regiment) is well on his way to reaching Olympus and defeating one of their deadliest foes. His progress is hindered only by his own inner struggle; strange dreams plague him at night; dreams where he wields a hammer, not a rifle, against an unknown foe.
In Olympus, a woman named Athena also dreams, and begins to investigate the one taboo common to all three societies; the mystery of the past. How did the war begin? Who was responsible? And why does everyone she meet seem almost forcefully ignorant of their roots?
Finally, in Heliopolis, there lives a man who guards the neutral, maximum-security prison at Tartarus. Anubis also dreams of an ancient battlefield, but to him they are nightmares, visions where he is hatefully transformed into a jackal-like creature.
Drawn unwillingly by fate and fortune, these three will converge upon the mystery at Tartarus--and the terrible truth about their common foe.
Yeah...this is what I call a 'convergent mythology' series, which combines the major world mythologies into one storyline. Many of the names and concepts are the same, or are combined and reworked to intermix the different legends together. Some are literal, such as (eventually) Mjolnir (Thor's hammer). Others are figurative, like Fimbulwinter: in myth, it is the long, dark winter where 'brother will fight brother'. In the book, it is literally the war between these groups.
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