Crackles with vivid fury, passion and strength.
A blazing novel set in the world of Ancient Greece for fans of Jennifer Saint and Natalie Haynes, this is a thrilling tale of power and prophecies, of hatred, love, and of an unforgettable Queen who fiercely dealt out death to those who wronged her..
If power isn\'t given to you, you have to take it for yourself.
For you understood something long ago that the others never did.
So, you bide your time and force the gods\' hands in the game of retribution.
Acceptance or vengeance, infamy follows both.
But when your husband returns in triumph, you become a woman with a choice.
Slowly, you plot.
And this will not be your undoing.
This was not the life you ever deserved.
Because this was not the first offence against you.
You watch him wage war on a foreign shore, and you comfort yourself with violent thoughts of your own.
You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods.
You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant.
She already knows which option suits her best...
As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. ? Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne and Elektra Madeline Miller\'s Circe meets Cersei Lannister in a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious heroine of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen.
A powerful, thought-provoking portrayal of a fascinating and complicated woman framed in beautiful prose.
Crackles with vivid fury, passion and strength
