…the air moves, congealing around me, pinioning my arms to my sides, as a tall red-garbed woman steps through the encircling ring of warriors. Her eyes blaze like small, brilliant-blue suns, capturing my gaze, and suddenly I can see nothing but twin discs of azure that grow and swirl and— A fist smashes into my jaw and the world goes black.

Prince Odysseus sets out from Ithaca to rescue his family's honour, but when he reaches the sacred island of Delos and hears the words of the prophetess, he realises the whole of Achaea is doomed. Unless...