Daughters of Sparta

It's time to hear the woman whose face launched a thousand ships tell her side of the legend that men have told for millennia. Daughters of Sparta is a story of secrets, passion, and tragedy told by the legendary Helen and her sister Klytemnestra, the ladies responsible for the most catastrophic battle in Greek mythology.

Helen and Klytemnestra are Spartan princesses who have only ever known abundance and luxury. They are Greece's envy due to their superior beauty and noble origins. But, there is a price for this luxury. The sisters, still just young girls, are divided and wed to foreign monarchs of their father's choosing: the strong Agamemnon and his sibling Menelaos. However, even as Queens, their only duties are to bear fruit and to exhibit the modest, meek character that is required of women.

But when the harshness, ambition, and indifference of their spouses become too much to handle, Helen and Klytemnestra are forced to rebel against the norms of their society and forge new paths that will have repercussions for the next three millennia.

A striking and insightful retelling of the Siege of Troy, Daughters of Sparta is presented from the viewpoints of two women whose voices have been disregarded for far too long.

Circe fans should not miss this amazing, exciting debut novel.

--Fiona Davis, bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue on the New York Times

"[A] stunning rendering of the well-known Greek myth... utterly captivating."

--The Henna Artist author Alka Joshi, a New York Times bestselling author