My Spotlight Guest: Judith Starkston - Achilles’s Wife

My spotlight guest

I’m pleased to share my friend Judith Starkston’s new novel, 

ACHILLES’S WIFE. 

It’s a feminist Greek myth retelling of Deidamia and Achilles —

with a key twist. 

About the Book

In an ancient kingdom, a princess takes inspiration from a visiting young woman to challenge her father’s views and leadership—and then discovers her muse is a man. 

The goddess mother of Greek mythology’s most famous warrior, Achilles, will do anything to prevent her son’s fated early death. In a desperate move, she hides Achilles, against his will, on an island—disguised in a girl’s body.

Tormented by inner discord, the miscast “girl” befriends Mia, the eldest daughter of the island’s king, launching a transformation of Mia’s own. Armed with a new vision she believes comes from a girl, Mia contends with family secrets, a controlling father, her destiny to rule, and the wrath of a goddess. 

When fate reveals Achilles’s identity, a divine mother’s fury drives Mia and Achilles into marriage. Mia must navigate her love for a man with a divided heart and a dangerous measure of immortality. Balancing governance and motherhood, Mia will face an unbearable choice.

Achilles’s Wife retells one of the myths about Achilles’s life before the Trojan War—when his divine mother conceals him on a remote Greek island to keep him out of the brewing Trojan War. But it’s a novel about female leadership and motherhood. The main character is the princess of the island, Deidamia (Mia), a young woman who chooses a dramatically different life for herself after she is influenced by her friendship with a girl who turns out to be the male warrior Achilles. And he leaves behind an epic challenge for her to raise and love.

https://www.amazon.com/Achilless-Wife-Retelling-Trojan-Threads/dp/B0GJGHPRSX/

Or the link on Bookshop.org 

https://bookshop.org/p/books/achilles-s-wife-a-novel-of-greek-myth-retelling-judith-starkston/ca69ead9398187cc

Judith Starkston

Author of Hand of Fire and Priestess of Ishana 

www.JudithStarkston.com

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