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Ancient Greece: A place where the gods hold mortal life
cheap, mere playthings to amuse, delight, and abuse at
their will. But those puny mortals are not wholly devoid of power and
at the core of their fabulous city-states lies the
Labyrinth, where they can shape the powers of the heavens
to their own design. When Theseus entered the Labyrinth and
came away with the prize of freedom and his beloved
Adrianne, Mistress of the Labyrinth, his future seemed
assured... Until he abandoned her for the unforgivable sin
of bearing him only a daughter, and the world seemed to
change. From that day forward, all the Labyrinths in the
ancient world started to decay. It slowly became clear that
power was fading from the city-states.
Was it the natural decline that comes to all cultures or
was it because the power of the Labyrinth had been
corrupted by a woman spurned?
A hundred years pass--Troy has fallen and the Trojans are a
scattered and humbled people. The warrior Brutus is of the
line of kings and gods. He wears the golden kingship bands
of Troy proudly--but they are his only mementos of a former
glory, for he is a man without a country and is left little
else but pride and a memory of the latent power that he
could wield if but given a chance. When he receives a god-
sent vision of a distant shore where he can rebuild the
ancient kingdom, he will move heaven and earth to reach his
destiny.
Ever eastward he is drawn, to a lovely and mystical green
land that offers him a haven--and a dream of power and
conquest. Nothing will deter him... not even the entreaties
of the young princess whom he took as his wife and bedded
against her will. First her hatred--and now her love--
torment and bind him. She is the only one who realizes the
danger he is stepping into, and she will do anything to
save him... and his son, whom she carries in her womb.
For in the mists of Albion there lies a woman of power--a
woman who has used her siren call to cloud Brutus's mind
and has her own reasons for luring the warrior to these
lush shores....
She is the long-descended granddaughter of Adrianne, and
she has in her heart a hatred that has been passed down for
generations. Her plans for Brutus will enact a revenge that
could destroy the gods themselves.
If Brutus makes the journey successfully, it will be the
next step in the Game of the Labyrinth and might start a
complicated contest of wills that could span centuries....
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