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The Quest: Origins & Aftermath of the Trojan War. HOUSE OF ATREUS, #5
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- Date de parution15/10/2026
- FormatePub
- ISBN8233142161
- EAN9798233142161
- Protection num.Adobe DRM
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- ÉditeurLinda Balsamo
Résumé
A mother's murder. A god's command. A curse that will not release its grip. Orestes is hunted-not just by the Furies, but by the truth behind the crime they punish. He killed his mother on Apollo's command, in the name of justice. Now the gods are silent, their temples rotting, their promises hollow. Then comes word of the impossible: his sister Iphigenia-sacrificed years ago-is alive, held in the brutal land of Taurica as High Priestess to a goddess who demands blood.
She may be his only path to redemption. If he can reach her before the Furies do. Because something is wrong with the divine order. Not angry. Not distant. Broken. The journey will take him through corrupted oracles and collapsing temples, across seas haunted by something vast and ancient-something that does not answer to any god, and that remembers every debt. And beneath it all, something older is still at work-twisting fear into rage, doubt into certainty, and choice into violence.
But when Orestes finally finds his sister, he discovers she has not been waiting to be saved. Iphigenia has been surviving. Scheming. And she has become something far more dangerous than a victim-a woman who can weaponize ritual, superstition, and belief itself to forge her own freedom. Her rescue will not be a battle. It will be a performance. As they flee across the Inhospitable Sea, hunted by Scythian warriors and something older beneath the waves, survival begins to strip everything away-certainty, innocence, even the stories they tell themselves to justify what they've done.
Until at last, a price is demanded. Not blood... just the truth. Because a trial is coming. Athens awaits. And there will be no gods to answer for him. No prophecy to hide behind. Only a man-and the things he chose to do. Perfect for readers of Circe, The Song of Achilles, and The Poppy War-and for those drawn to Greek mythology retellings, dark fantasy, morally complex heroes, epic sea voyages, and stories where the most dangerous thing isn't the monster beneath the waves.
It's the truth waiting at the journey's end.
She may be his only path to redemption. If he can reach her before the Furies do. Because something is wrong with the divine order. Not angry. Not distant. Broken. The journey will take him through corrupted oracles and collapsing temples, across seas haunted by something vast and ancient-something that does not answer to any god, and that remembers every debt. And beneath it all, something older is still at work-twisting fear into rage, doubt into certainty, and choice into violence.
But when Orestes finally finds his sister, he discovers she has not been waiting to be saved. Iphigenia has been surviving. Scheming. And she has become something far more dangerous than a victim-a woman who can weaponize ritual, superstition, and belief itself to forge her own freedom. Her rescue will not be a battle. It will be a performance. As they flee across the Inhospitable Sea, hunted by Scythian warriors and something older beneath the waves, survival begins to strip everything away-certainty, innocence, even the stories they tell themselves to justify what they've done.
Until at last, a price is demanded. Not blood... just the truth. Because a trial is coming. Athens awaits. And there will be no gods to answer for him. No prophecy to hide behind. Only a man-and the things he chose to do. Perfect for readers of Circe, The Song of Achilles, and The Poppy War-and for those drawn to Greek mythology retellings, dark fantasy, morally complex heroes, epic sea voyages, and stories where the most dangerous thing isn't the monster beneath the waves.
It's the truth waiting at the journey's end.



















