The Princess of Sparta: Heroes of the Trojan War

Helen of Troy, arguably the most infamous woman in ancient history, was not the seductress of Homer's poems.  Her humble story began as a Princess of Sparta; honorable, loyal, with promise to become a powerful queen.  Her lauded beauty was more curse than blessing, inciting lust and jealousy in the greedy kings who would make her their prize.  Given in marriage to Menelaus of Mycenae, an abusive husband who neither wants nor needs her, she clings to a prophecy made to her about a great destiny, and even greater love. 

That destiny awaits her in Paris, a noble prince of Troy, whose reputation for fairness and fortitude precedes him as an Ambassador. Unjustly cursed at birth by a dark omen claiming he will cause the destruction of Troy, Paris is a haunted figure.  This omen overshadows his good deeds, making him an object of ridicule amongst the Trojan nobility, and compelling his own mother to try to kill him as a babe.  He is a man who has never known love.   

Until the day the Fates intervene and Paris travels to Mycenae as an Ambassador of Troy. He meets Helen, and the two souls linked by common destiny and purpose are reunited.  Their love becomes legend, provoking the greatest war of ancient history, shaking the foundations of the world, and paving the way for the rise of Greece and Rome.

See how the epic war all began in "The Princess of Sparta" book one in the ten part series "Heroes of the Trojan War."