In All Her Radiance

By N.K Elmo

Our self-made goddess has never had true love in her centuries of life. That all changes when she comes across a humble carpenter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: N.K Elmo
• Release date: Apr 11, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224047345

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N.K. Elmo

In All Her Radiance

Copyright © 2024 by N.K. Elmo

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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To the ones who spend their nights imagining a love they’ve never experienced.

I love thee, I love but thee,

With a love that shall not die

Till the sun grows cold,

And the stars are old

Bayard Taylor

Contents

Acknowledgement

A Girl

A Goddess

A Man

A Goddess in Love

And They Lived Happily Ever After

Afterword

Acknowledgement

I’m so excited to have finally finished a story for the first time since I was a kid. I’ve always loved writing but could not complete a story for the life of me. So many ideas were never fully explored. So I want to start by crediting a few things for inspiring me to write this. First to my father, who has been encouraging me to keep writing and wants me to become an author, a dream he never fulfilled himself. I also thank The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow for making me realize that I don’t have to write an entire novel in order to share a story. Some elements of this book are also loosely inspired by Greek mythology and Christianity.

A Girl

Once upon a time, there was a girl. The girl grew to be such a beautiful, smart, and talented young woman that people couldn’t help but admire her. In fact, they admired her so much that they gave her gifts. They gifted her poems, stories, songs, and books as declarations of love and adoration. They gifted her handmade items made from their blood, sweat, and tears. They even gifted her gold and silver in the form of many things, like jewelry, money, and statues. People would visit from all around the land to see and appreciate her. As she became more and more well known, they made cities for her and created legends after her. The whole world knew she was someone special, someone to be praised. She was gifted with great power. Power in the form of the people’s