Rebels of Olympus Series

Not all gifts are meant to be opened.   In the workshop of the blacksmith god Hephaestus, the first woman comes to life. The Olympians name her Pandora, 'All-Gifted,' since each of them has endowed her with a gift: beauty, poise, self-possession and cunning, among others.   Zeus gives her two gifts: a burning desire to learn—and a jar she is ordered never to open.   Pandora is fostered by gods but raised to live among men. When she marries the Titan Epimetheus—brother of the gods' worst enemy, Prometheus—her fate appears to be sealed.   Although her life with Epimetheus is full of happiness, Pandora is besieged by nightmares carrying omens of dark things to come: destruction, famine, death and the end of the young race of mankind.   With the fate of humanity at stake, will Pandora surrender to the destiny that haunts her, or challenge her nature and become what no god ever imagined she could be?

Every legend hides a truth as dangerous as a double-edged sword.   On the far island of Sarpedon, a snake-haired she-monster known to inhabitants as the Soul of Stone turns people into statues. For decades, heroes from all over Greece have been trying to put an end to her evil, and for decades her collection of statues has grown, soul by soul.   When Panacea, a young Amazon warrior with a talent for potions, learns her brother has been killed by the monster, she sails to Sarpedon to seek revenge. But in the killer's cave, Panacea makes a stunning discovery that leaves her questioning everything she believes to be true.   Torn between bravery and fear, between loyalty and treachery, Panacea must reconcile herself to the knowledge that ending a life is easy, while preserving one is hard.   Vengeance is an art—but is she willing to bathe her soul in Hellfire in order to master it?

Sometimes the truths we choose to ignore cast the longest shadows …   In the distant Caucasus Mountains, an ancient demon is chained to a rock. People say the gods put him there as punishment for an unspeakable crime, for which the penalty is perennial damnation.   When Zid, an explorer with a faulty leg and an inquisitive mind, learns the legend of the demon, he sets out to find the truth. But after a heartbreaking discovery on a bleak mountainside, the tale begins to crumble. Zid is left questioning the truth behind the origins of humankind and the biggest threat to human liberty.   Will Zid risk his own life to fight the gods' treachery? He must choose between friendship and freedom as his actions set him against the most powerful of the Olympian gods: Zeus himself.

Daughter. Wife. Queen. Rebel.   When Persephone, queen of the Underworld and ruler of the dead, finds her mother Demeter amid the ruins of a forest, she knows the goddess's mind is broken.   With the world withering and mortals dying by the thousands with every turn of the sun, Persephone has little time to stop the rapid decay of nature before doom befalls the world of gods and men.   But rescuing her mother from insanity proves both difficult and dangerous, and demands a painful remembering of Persephone's past—filled with beauty and bitterness, rage and thwarted love.   And the powerful Olympians do not stay idle. They threaten and scheme, pushing Persephone to fulfil her destiny in a way that would force her to write history with her family's blood.   Will Persephone save her mother and thus stop the collapse of the world, or will she be forced to pay her due by committing the ultimate crime?

This Muse needs no lyre to inspire. Her song is in her sword.   When Muse Calliope and her sisters flee from burning Greece, the Titan Mnemosyne tells them it is north they need to go: to a barbarian land the natives call Britain. There the Greek goddesses can find shelter and spread their culture for the benefit of the land's inhabitants.   But Britain proves to be a hostile land, filled with fire-breathing demons and snake-shaped gods, where the strong prey on the weak and men believe the only way to deal with life is by the sharp edge of a sword.   Calliope realizes that to help Britain prosper she needs to embrace a culture where the sword is a symbol of justice and power.   Can the sword in the stone help her find the pure-hearted leader who will give Britain its much-needed peace, or will she fail in her mission and see it succumb to blood and anarchy?

Defying the gods comes at a hefty cost.   King Sisyphus is a man hated by the gods, a trickster and a rogue who outwitted the Olympians and cheated death not once, but twice. He is forever forced to pay for his defiance by pushing a boulder up a hill in the depths of Tartarus.   When an unusual traveler approaches Sisyphus, the king reveals the untold story behind the myth.   Sisyphus grew up appalled by his father's blind worship for the gods. He decided to create his own kingdom, one that would not pay tribute to any deity, where humans would forge their own destiny.   But prophecies spoken by an ancient being said his life would always be a struggle for survival, and resilience would be his best ally. When a clever action meant to save his kingdom brought Sisyphus against the most powerful of the Olympians, the battle for his soul began.   After giving up his own freedom to build a place where humans could forge their own destiny, will King Sisyphus spend eternity paying the price—or will he outwit the gods one last time?

What would you be willing to sacrifice to cheat death?   In the House of Hades, young Princess Macaria struggles to belong. Not stern like her father, King of the Underworld and ruler of the dead, nor power-hungry like her mother Persephone, she turns to stories of love and loss among the mortals to seek solace in a world without happy endings.   After the queen assigns Macaria more responsibilities in the ruling of the Netherworld, the young goddess learns that justice is swift but seldom fair, especially when it means preserving the division between the worlds of the dead and of the living.   When the mortal Orpheus, who plays the lyre with heavenly grace, breaches the Underworld to retrieve his wife, he threatens the very balance of life and death. With Orpheus' destiny in her hands, Macaria is torn between her admiration for humans and her duty as the princess of the Underworld.   Will she choose what history and duty say is necessary—or follow her heart?

Can a heart beat inside stone?   Young Pygmalion is haunted by a dark past. Fatherless, betrayed by his mother, and forced to run away from home, he vowed to never rely on other people to survive.   After a childhood plagued by hardship, Pygmalion finds solace in practicing the noble art of sculpting.   His inventive mind makes him the most successful artist in Greece, but his proud stance against love earns him the hate of the goddess Aphrodite.   When his greatest artistic achievement forces him to reevaluate everything he believed in, it begins a journey to rediscover life's meaning.   Will Pygmalion be able to dispel the ghosts of the past, or will he succumb to his inability to relate to other people and never find the true meaning of love?

Whichever god wins the game… we lose.   King Cecrops is haunted by a nightmare: his city, Cecropia, falling to rubble and his subjects dying at the hands of a treacherous god.   Troubling news has reached him. Countless cities across the Greek world are facing insurmountable odds: pestilences, floods, wars, and cataclysms of epic proportions on a scale never seen before.   The Olympians have started a bloody contest to see which one among them will name each city—with catastrophic consequences for the mortals who inhabit them.   And the gods are coming for Cecropia next.   Now Cecrops faces a choice: either he finds a way to rig the god's game or witnesses his worst nightmare becoming reality.   With the future of his homeland at stake, the king must deal with a threat capable of destroying not only Cecropia, but the entire Greek world.

The path to the divine is one of sorrow…   In the ancient world of Greece, a crippled girl named Arete seeks refuge in the mystical city of Delphi. Fate weaves a tapestry leading her to the doorstep of the sacred Temple of Apollo, where she learns to survive through the kindness of strangers.   In the shadow of the temple, Arete encounters the wise High Priestess of Apollo, who becomes her guide and mentor. Through ancient rituals and mystical teachings, the High Priestess unveils the latent strength within Arete, urging her to rise above the limitations of her past.   As Arete learns to navigate the balance between the mortal and the divine, she discovers that the key to her destiny lies in self-trust and the willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice for the people she has come to love.