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Ghost of Troy
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 30 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Troy burns. Rome calls it victory. Marcus knows better.
He was trained to obey before doubt could take root. He was trained to turn cities into records, bodies into numbers, and mercy into weakness. But in the smoke of Troy, one order breaks something in him that no oath can repair.
The child's name is Idaios.
Marcus does not know that name at first. He only knows the wooden horse, the blood on his hand, and the scream that follows him out of the city. When he deserts the Roman camp, he expects pursuit from men. What finds him instead is worse: the dead, gathering in ash, silence, and memory.
Haunted by those Rome erased, Marcus crosses a myth-struck world of shrines, bandits, ruined cities, sacred springs, and impossible roads. Myrto sees more of his shadow than he wants. Tima forces him to face the children war leaves behind. Derae teaches him that repair is public, ugly, and never clean. And when Gaius returns as both man and echo, Marcus must confront the cruelty he once mistook for discipline.
His road leads to Olympus, but the gods do not offer comfort. They offer sentence.
To survive, Marcus must learn that atonement is not forgiveness. It is not erasure. It is the long, humiliating labor of naming the dead, serving the living, and carrying what cannot be made right.
Ghost of Troy is a dark mythic historical fantasy for readers who want morally wounded soldiers, haunted empires, ancient gods, and redemption that costs more than a prayer.
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