"It's really not that complicated, pretty boy. No matter who rule, the gods will continue to be how gods always have been. Much like mortals, they never learn from the past." Silas Karteen, a young man struggling financially having to take care of a mentally ill mother and absent father, in the desperate need of money accepts a mysterious mission help a woman that goes be the name Nova, retrieve an ancient artifact deep in the rainforest. But Nova hides a secret, a big one. What truth lies beneath those pretty blue eyes? Little did he know that simple mission would get him dragged him into a war of higher deities he'd only heard about in myths. Defy the gods, is a slow burn Romantasy story inspired by Greek mythology, with many secrets to uncover.