Athena's Child (The Grecian Women Trilogy)

by Hannah M. Lynn

Women use words and reason where men use fists and force.

‘Sometimes, it is difficult to see where your feet are planted when you are focusing so far out to the horizon.

Her father may have planned to steal years of her life, but she could choose in what humour she accepted them.

Trust does not require answers, Perseus. Trust requires acceptance.’

If there was one image he would take with him to draw strength from, one image of the life he wished to return to, it would be this.

With the sword too, he couldn’t help but think that the only weak link in his armoury supplied by the gods to kill Medusa was himself.

‘They have sent me a god,’ she whispered. ‘They have sent me a god.’