Published in 2023 (first published 2016)
444 pages
18 hrs 3 mins
Kate Quinn is a bestselling author of historical fiction. A lifelong history buff, she has written seven historical novels, including The Alice Network, the Empress of Rome Saga, and the Borgia Chronicle. All have been translated into multiple languages.
Eliza Knight is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling author. Her love of history began as a young girl when she traipsed the halls of Versailles. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society and Novelists, Inc. and the creator of the popular historical blog, History Undressed.
Stephanie Dray is an award-winning, bestselling, and two-time RITA-nominated author of historical women’s fiction. Before she became a novelist, she was a lawyer, a game designer, and a teacher. Now she uses the stories of women in history to inspire the young women of today.
Ruth Downie is the author of the New York Times bestseller Medicus, as well as Terra Incognita, Persona Non Grata, Caveat Emptor, Semper Fidelis, and Tabula Rasa. She is married with two sons and lives in Devon, England.
Stephanie Marie Thornton is a high school history teacher and lives in Alaska with her husband and daughter.
Libbie Hawker writes historical and literary fiction featuring deeply human characters, with rich details of time and place. She is the author of ten novels, most of which take place in the distant past among ancient civilizations.
Miles Cameron is a full-time writer who lives in Canada with his family. He also writes historical fiction under another name. The Red Knight is his fantasy debut.
David Blixt is an author of historical fiction, whose works have been named an Editor’s Choice fy the Historical Novel Society and been a finalist for the M. M. Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction. His novels, which span the Roman Empire and early Renaissance Italy to England’s Elizabethan era, combine a love of the theater with a deep respect for the quirks and passions of history.
What is this book about?
Troy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the east, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years. But the Fates have other plans—the Fates, and a woman named Helen. In the shadow of Troy’s gates, all must be reborn in the greatest war of the ancient world: slaves and queens, heroes and cowards, seers and kings . . . and these are their stories.
A young princess and an embittered prince join forces to prevent a fatal elopement.
A tormented seeress challenges the gods themselves to save her city from the impending disaster.
A tragedy-haunted king battles private demons and envious rivals as the siege grinds on.
A grizzled archer and a desperate Amazon risk their lives to avenge their dead.
A trickster conceives the greatest trick of all.
A goddess’ son battles to save the spirit of Troy even as the walls are breached in fire and blood.
Seven authors bring to life the epic tale of the Trojan War: its heroes, its villains, its survivors, its dead. Who will lie forgotten in the embers, and who will rise to shape the bloody dawn of a new age?
