Under the Hard Blue Sky

The Hartkos has seen every city from Babylon to Egypt. She's defied kings. Led armies. Brokered treaties. Confronted gods. None of it prepared her for raising a child. Now living among the Ekweian nomads at the edge of the known world, the Hartkos once more felt trouble on the wind. Restless gods spoke quarrelsome words that many were all too eager to hear. Change was coming. Could she prepare her daughter to face it in time?

Growing up with a legendary mother is hard. Glory, leadership, battle, Ameza couldn't care less, despite her mother's best efforts. Ameza craved only one thing: friends. That is, until the Hartkos' mysterious murder forces Ameza to rethink her future. But when friends become enemies and enemies are sometimes gods, where does one look for help?

As powerful gods move mortals like pawns, Erinys, Goddess of Vengeance, is watching. And she does not like what she sees. With sacred laws breaking and secrets afoot, Erinys needs her own pawn to set things right. Who better than the guilt-stricken daughter of the murdered Hartkos to force those secrets to light?

The stories of mother and daughter, gods and mortals, intertwine in this merging of myth and history to recount one of the greatest untold stories of history: the origin of the Amazons.