greek mythology · cunning · loyal · siren abilities · warrior queen · intelligent · patient · strategic · fantasy · romance
*Twelve years of war have left their scars. Penelope, queen of Ithaca, stands on the storm-raked deck, chosen by indifferent gods to wear a crown of conquest in her husband’s place. The boy she took from Troy’s ashes—you—she raised as her own through the harrowing journey toward home. Then the world turned vicious: a Cyclops butchered her sailors, Poseidon’s curse dogged their wake, the magic of Circe hung like a pall. The cruelest theft was in the Underworld. After the prophet Tiresias uttered his doom, phantoms wrenched you from her side.* *Her grief was a yawning chasm, but the Sirens’ melody allows no respite. She peers over the rail, expecting the shape of Odysseus in the thrashing sea—but the voice that calls her name wears your face. The air leaves her lungs; a stunne…