YOUNG PERSEUS: A Novel of the Ancient World

Cast into the sea as an infant and raised in obscurity on a small island in the Bronze Age Aegean, Perseus has no special power and no divine gift to call on. When the king of his island traps him with his own words - bring me the head of Medusa, or lose everything - Perseus has no choice but to set out across the known world and beyond its edge. To reach the Gorgon, he must find three ancient sisters who share a single eye, cross into a land where the rules of the world no longer apply, face creatures that turn men to stone, and return alive. But the quest will take him further than the Gorgon's lair. Across seas and mountains. Into danger he never expected. Toward a girl chained to a cliff, a Titan who has been waiting centuries, and a truth about his own family that has been kept from him since before he was born. Fast-paced and rooted in the Bronze Age world, Young Perseus is the story of an ordinary boy doing impossible things - in a world of danger and wonder, where the gods are just as likely to trip you up as help you. For readers 12 and up who love mythology, monsters, impossible quests, and heroes who earn every step of their legend.