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Kore has lived her entire life under her resentful mother Demeter’s shadow, trying her hardest to please a woman grown bitter by betrayal. With her self-esteem in tatters and deliberately isolated by her mother, it’s no surprise that Kore is flummoxed when she meets a collection of otherworldly women—the Goddesses of Olympus—who tell her that her mother is in truth a Goddess herself. Kore tells them her preferred name, Persephone, and hopes they will not only have answers for her new questions, but offer the friendship and love she craves.

Told by the stranger Ferryman, the tales follow the fortunes of a family destined to live through that most terrible of times, the rise of one civilization and the fall of another. Before Rome became an empire, Caesar looked north, to the Gauls, eying their lands and wealth hungrily. This book begins with the escape of the slave, Gallin, from the destruction of Spartacus and his journey home to his ancestral lands. But it is long before he finds his place within his tribe again.

The stars are ripe with prophecy in the clan of Adam and Eve about an ominous angelic incursion coming to the Earth. But Baraqua, a beautiful young woman of their clan, is unconcerned about anything but her schemes to marry a man forbidden to her. When her face appears in the dreams of Jared, the youngest elder, Baraqua is required by tradition to marry him. In the struggle of wills that follows, Adam and the elders can only pray that this headstrong scribe’s daughter will give birth to the world’s Savior, who will lead them safely back to the Garden of Eden.