When Lore comes home on the first night of the Agon to find Athena gravely wounded on her doorstep, the goddess offers her an alliance they have a mutual enemy, after all. For seven years, she has pushed back dark thoughts of revenge against the man responsible for their murder, a man by the name of Wrath who has attained unimaginable power. Alexandra Bracken is the 1 New York Times.

Only a handful of the original Greek gods remain, the rest replaced by the mortals who killed them and ascended.Īfter her family's sadistic murder by a rival bloodline, Lore escapes and vows to repay her parents' sacrifice by doing one thing - surviving. Lore takes classic mythology and gives it a dark and deadly spin. A game that is about to begin again.įor centuries, Zeus has punished the gods with a game called the Agon, which turns them mortal for one week and at the mercy of being hunted by those with godly ambitions. After working in publishing for several years, she now writes full time. Born and raised in Arizona, she moved east to study history and English at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

A lifetime ago, Lore Perseous left behind the brutal, opulent world of the Agon families - ancient Greek bloodlines that participate in a merciless game every seven years. Product Details About the Author Alexandra Bracken is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Darkest Minds series and Passenger series. From the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Darkest Minds comes a high-octane story of power, destiny and redemption. Fraught with epic world-building and high stakes action, Lore is a rich tale of Greek mythology meets The Hunger Games that YA Fantasy fans wont want to miss.

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