Athena's Child (The Grecian Women Trilogy)

by Hannah M. Lynn

It took two moons before Danae realised the effects of the golden rain. Now, within her, she bore the consequence of that day. Fear and love wavered back and forth in her mind. If this child was born a boy, nothing other than his death would satiate her father’s desires. And the child would be a boy. She knew enough about the gods to understand that.

SHES PREGNANT?!!!!

And she named him. He would be the one to end her solitude and bring her back to the light. Perseus.

Omfg rip medusa

The child of a god. The child of Zeus himself, she knew, for no other could have come to her as he did.

ZEUS?!

Father. They had taken to using the term for the God of the Sea as a source of mockery – Poseidon’s rape of Medusa somehow a source of comfort to them; maybe that she had at least suffered one indignity they had not.

That is fucking crazy