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Ariadne
Paperback
Series: The Olympus Cycle, Book 2
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Ioakim Ioakim
Published: Jun 5 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The labyrinth was her knowledge. The thread was her invention. The hero was her choice - and then her abandonment.
ARIADNE is the daughter of the king of Crete, the granddaughter of the sun, the sister of the Minotaur. She grew up in the most magnificent palace in the Greek world, with the knowledge of its darkest secret underneath it: her brother Asterion, the monster, living in the labyrinth that Daedalus built and that Ariadne, across years of watching and understanding, learned to navigate.
She woke on the beach at Naxos alone.
What comes after the abandonment is the true subject of this novel. Not the lament - the reckoning. The god who arrived after the hero left. The full accounting of what the thread was for, what the labyrinth meant, what the correct instrument for an impossible situation costs the person who makes it. The crown placed in the sky. The life that began on the other side of the beach.
ARIADNE is a novel about intelligence, about the gifts we make from our deepest knowledge, about what happens when the person who gave everything is finally asked: what do you want now?
The thread was hers. The crown is in the sky.
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