Genesis: A Why-Choose Paranormal Romance (In the Beginning, Book 1)
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Genesis: A Why-Choose Paranormal Romance (In the Beginning, Book 1)

by Phoenix Drake

About this book

She walked through a hole in the world. Four men's souls caught fire.

Nicholas Acker is a Manhattan billionaire with everything money buys and nothing worth feeling. Heir to a fashion empire that secretly bankrolls humanity's alien overlords, he's spent years numbing the void with women and drugs. Until the night magic detonates his soul when a barefoot stranger in a dirty tunic walks out of nothing.

Yara Fortune doesn't know her name. She doesn't remember the war that hurled her across realms, or the lifetimes she's already lived, or which of her past selves carved the old language into her memory. She knows only three things. Someone is hunting her. The alien empires caging Earth want her dead. And the four men who felt her arrive will burn the world before they let either happen.

A jaded billionaire whose mental whisper woke up screaming for her.

A scarred killer who never lets anyone touch his bare hands.

A sun-drunk Viking with the Midgard Serpent coiled inside his blood.

A dark-winged angel who's been waiting lifetimes to hold her again.

She belongs to them all.

From Manhattan rooftops to a haunted English castle, from New Zealand cliffs to a bratva farmhouse soaked in blood, Genesis is a globe-spanning paranormal romance where Norse mythology, biblical prophecy, and four obsessed alpha males collide on a final-page cliffhanger that'll ruin your week.

Perfect for fans of Caroline Peckham, A.K. Koonce, Raven Kennedy, and the morally grey men of Sarah J. Maas.

Tropes:

✦ Why choose / reverse harem (4 male love interests)

✦ Fated mates across reincarnated lifetimes

✦ Amnesiac warrior heroine

✦ Billionaire hero

✦ Fallen angel hero

✦ Norse god / Jörmungandr awakening

✦ Hidden magical aristocracy and alien overlords

✦ Possessive, obsessed alphas

✦ Globe-trotting urban fantasy

✦ Multi-POV (hero, angel, Viking)

✦ Found family

✦ Series starter, brutal cliffhanger

Reader advisory: explicit on-page content, multiple male POVs, on-page violence, morally grey behavior across the entire male ensemble, and a final scene that's going to send you straight to Book Two.

In the Beginning, Book One. Continue the story in Forsake (out now).

Publication Date
May 25, 2026
ASIN
B0DNQNNY33

Reader Reviews

Grips you from page one, and you won't put it down!

January 16, 2026

I don't want to share spoilers, so I'll keep this more generic than I want to. :) This book gripped me from the very beginning and took me on a ride I didn’t want to get off. The author seamlessly blends genres, which both intrigued me and kept me hooked until the very last page. I’m very lucky I already bought book two in the series, because I can't wait to continue discovering what happens in this enticing, riveting story. The author weaves together science fiction, mythology, and spiritual...

Attention grabbing

October 7, 2025

Genesis was gripping from the very first page and I thoroughly enjoyed the read. ) One person found this helpful

Oh my gosh this book!

March 1, 2025

I’m so in love with this book. The world’s both Earth and the other realms. The story behind humans and Earth! My dark Angel, Keller, and Nick. I also can’t forget Dorschter!!!! I’m in love with it all! We’ll all of it but the Goddess. I really don’t think I like her. And the ending! Oh my! I can’t wait for the next book! ) 2 people found this helpful

Great start to this story

December 19, 2024

World building Why choose Love crossing time Finding one's power Touch her and die Can't wait to start the next book! ) 2 people found this helpful

What a ride…WOW!

September 3, 2025

Do you like fantasy without the big confusing names or world building but with non stop action? From the very 1st page I was hooked, needed to know what was happening next. This has everything from aliens, humans, monsters, shifters dark angels, dragons, magic and more. Yara is the FMC with many pasts she does not remember. Several male characters. Euberl has a history with Yara, of course she does not recall. She's pulled to these men without understanding why. My favorite quote \" Why did the...

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