An Unexpected Ally: A Greek Tale of Love, Revenge, and Redemption - Paperback
An Unexpected Ally: A Greek Tale of Love, Revenge, and Redemption - Paperback
by Sophia Kouidou-Giles (Author)
Powerful Circe, daughter of the sun-god Helios, is sad to see Odysseus, King of Ithaca, depart from her island, Aeaea--but her heartbreak is eased after dolphins take her to Delos, where she explores a new love relationship.
Circe has a strained relationship with her mother, Perse, but when she finally listens to Perse's encouragement to seek out the amphibian god Glaucus, she's glad she's heeded her advice. Together, the two embark on underwater adventures, and Circe shares with Glaucus her knowledge about the healing and harmful power of herbs. While in Delos, she also meets and befriends Skylla, a local beauty with whom Glaucus is enthralled, although the girl is indifferent. Circe eventually returns to Aeaea, but one day she learns, upon consulting her scrying mirror, that there is trouble in Delos that requires her immediate action. In the turbulent world of gods mingling with mortals, our heroine shifts shapes, flies, and uses her superpowers to reverse the course of evil. In a tangle of love, hate, vengeance, and the final righting of wrongs, a cast of irresistible characters weaves an adventure laced with beauty and terror in An Unexpected Ally--a newly woven set of tales that brings to life ancient Greek myths and revives issues familiar to contemporary readers.Author Biography
Sophia Kouidou-Giles is an award-winning author whose work spans memoir, historical fiction, myth retellings, poetry, and literary translation. Her writing has appeared in Voices, Persimmon Tree, Assay, The Raven's Perch, Story Wits, Women Writers, Women Books, The Fantasy Hive, and The Blue Nib, among others. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, Transitions and Passages; an award-winning memoir, Sophia's Return: Uncovering My Mother's Past; and two other Greek Tales novels, An Unexpected Ally and Circle of Peace. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kouidou-Giles now lives in Seattle, Washington.