Firghtened by a nightmare, pampered princess Thalassai awakens to real danger: she has been kidnapped. Fear grows into terror when she realizes her caaptors will use her as a pawn to gain Poseidon's aid for their valley. The ancient mother goddess ho has long sustained their land calls a harves moon into the spring sky to declare her challenge to the earthshaking god. With this goddess' support, will Thalasai find strength she does not think she has to challenge this fate? Thalassai's brother Melanion races to rescue her before the fleet his father sends traps the princess in the middle of a war. Servanats of the mother goddess speed him north, but when he is slowed by bandits, he must risk a dangerous tunnel under the mountain range. Will he be in time? Set in the days of Helen of Troy, this story takes the reader on a fast-paced journey across the sun-drenched landscape of Ancient Greece and deep into the darkness at the edge of Hades' kingdom.