Agamemnon Rising is the opening novel of the completed seven-book House of Atreus saga. It's a sweeping fusion of Greek mythology, historical epic, science fiction, and dark fantasy, for readers who like their legends brutal and uncensored.
Before Troy burned. Before the greatest tragedy in Greek mythology, there was a family already drowning in blood.
Long before he became the legendary King of Mycenae, Agamemnon was a hunted exile fighting to reclaim a stolen throne. His father committed atrocities that poisoned generations. His enemies want him dead. The woman he loves has become the wife of a rival king. Surrounded by betrayal, blood feuds, and rival kingdoms, every victory brings him closer to the destiny he cannot escape.
But history got one thing wrong.
The gods were never gods. They just wanted men to believe.
Apollo. Artemis. The Oracle at Delphi. The voices that guided kings for generations. But not gods at all. They are ancient intelligences. Remnants of a forgotten civilization whose original purpose was to guide humanity. Now they are corrupted into manipulating it through prophecy, fear, and belief.
As Agamemnon rises from refugee to warrior to king, every victory comes with a price. The gods have their own designs for him. His enemies have their own claims. His path to greatness leads inexorably toward an altar where a father will one day raise a knife over his own daughter.
The House of Atreus is a seven-book epic that retells the great tragedies of Greek mythology while exploring what might lie behind them. Faithful to the characters, relationships, and terrible choices of the classical myths, the series reveals a hidden reality in which the Olympian gods are ancient artificial intelligences, corrupted by their own power. Across generations of the House of Atreus, a family curse becomes a struggle over justice, free will, inherited violence, and humanity's right to govern its own destiny.
The first sails from Troy are already on the horizon.
The game has begun!
