“Both sensual and moving, the perfect balance of sweetness and spice.” --Libbie Hawker, bestselling author of Daughter of Sand and Stone and The Sehkmet Bed
More than 40 years before the events of Helen of Sparta--
When Aethra’s hopes for marriage to a hero-prince are dashed by his exile, Aethra’s father, the king of Troezen, asks her to...
Thirty years before the events of Helen of Sparta...
Princess Ariadne of Crete has long known what she must do. Her father, King Minos, insults the gods at every turn, and her brother, the Minotaur, lives a tormented life as his executioner inside the labyrinth. Even knowing how her brother suffers, she cannot bring herself to defy the king--to...
Set more than two decades before the events of Helen of Sparta...
Abandoned as a baby, Hippodamia would have died of exposure on the mountain had it not been for Centaurus. The king of the centaurs saved her, raised her as his own, and in exchange asks for only one thing: she must marry the future king of the Lapiths, Pirithous, son of Zeus, and...
Long before she ran away with Paris to Troy, Helen of Sparta was haunted by nightmares of a burning city under siege. These dreams foretold impending war—a war that only Helen has the power to avert. To do so, she must defy her family and betray her betrothed by fleeing the palace in the dead of night. In need of protection, she finds shelter...
Helen believed she could escape her destiny and save her people from utter destruction. After defying her family and betraying her intended husband, she found peace with her beloved Theseus, the king of Athens and son of Poseidon.
But peace did not last long. Cruelly separated from Theseus by the gods, and...
Aglaope was born on a barren island, trapped by the gods and cursed to sing passing ships to their doom, that she and her mother and grandmother might live on the sailor’s scavenged food and supplies.
But the times of plenty are behind them. The great war between Achaea and Troy has ended, and the heroes who for so long sailed in such large...
More than her fiery hair marks Freydís as the daughter of Erik the Red; her hot temper and fierce pride are as formidable as her Viking father’s. And so, too, is her devotion to the great god Thor, which puts her at odds with those in power—including her own brother, the zealous Leif Eriksson. Determined to forge her own path,...
Pirithous is back! But after 3000 years trapped in Hades, what does he have left to live for?
Pirithous, son of Zeus, stumbles out of the Underworld into Upstate New York, a land nothing like the one he left behind so long ago. The price of his freedom: revive the worship of his gods and build Persephone a temple for her help in his escape. But...
Two Novellas and Two Short Stories, previously digitally published or otherwise released independently, now collected together in print for the first time, including:
The Lion of Troezen
Ariadne and the Beast
King of the Lapiths
The Siren’s Song
From the conception of Theseus to Odysseus’s passage home in the aftermath of the Trojan War, this...
