Ghosts of Troy

TROY has fallen. For ten years Odysseus fought beneath its walls, and it was his cunning - a hollow horse, a lie wrapped in wood - that finally broke them. He should be sailing home a hero. Instead he carries a dead friend's voice in his hands, a curse from a blinded god's father, and a war he can't quite leave behind him. Ithaca is close. His wife is waiting. His son has grown up on nothing but stories of a father who never came home. But the sea has other plans. Between Odysseus and everything he loves stand a city that steals grief itself, a shepherd with one eye and an appetite for Greek flesh, and a bag of storms he was told never to open. Every choice he makes to save his men costs him something he can't get back, and not every god is finished with him yet. This is not the Odyssey you were told as a child. This is command, consequence, and the true price of coming home, stripped down to bronze and blood. Ghosts of Troy is Book One in The Wanderings of Odysseus.