The Reluctant Hero
Adam Alexander HaviarasLong ago, when gods and heroes walked the earth in triumph and tragedy, true love and epic deeds were set among the stars...
In the city of ancient Corinth, Bellerophon grew up in the corridors of the palace, haunted by his father's gruesome death, and distrusted and ignored by the rest of his own family.
He now spends his life in the shadows of society, and that is how he prefers it. However, the Gods of Olympus have something more in mind for him.
After a violent incident in the mountains, Bellerophon is banished from his home for all time. His path leads him to the court of an aged king in Tiryns where he is welcomed at first, but due to the spiteful queen, he is wrongly accused of another crime in a world that seems endlessly cruel.
Dejected and uncaring of what happens to him and his hateful life, Bellerophon is sent across the sea to the court of King Iobates of Lykia. At the urging of his seer, the king welcomes Bellerophon as an...