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The Return: A Ulysses Universe Novel
Paperback
Series: The Ulysses Universe Trilogy, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 2 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
After twenty years and a million light-years, the hero comes home. But home has teeth.
Admiral Ulysses Theron has crossed the void, survived gods and monsters, and lost more than any man should bear. Now, at last, Ithaca Station rises on his viewscreen - transformed into an armed fortress he barely recognizes. Beside him stands his son Telemachus, no longer the seven-year-old he carried out of Olympus but a hardened twenty-seven-year-old who's never known a world without war.
Inside the station, 108 suitors - the same number as his cursed crew, because Zeus has a sense of symmetry - have turned his home into occupied territory. They want his wife. They want his throne. They don't know he's coming.
They should.
Penelope has held the line for twenty years with nothing but her intelligence training and a promise. She doesn't need rescuing. She needs reinforcement. And hidden in the great hall, the bow that only Ulysses can string still hangs on the wall.
But even as Ulysses prepares to reclaim everything he's lost, the conspiracy he uncovered in the void reaches its endgame. The truth about the gods - what they really are, how old the patterns truly run - threatens to reshape the universe. Athena makes her last stand. Poseidon demands blood. And Zeus himself arrives to negotiate a future that nobody is ready for.
The greatest tactician in human history has one final strategy to execute. This time, failure means losing not just a war - but everyone he loves.
Some returns are harder than leaving. Some homecomings require blood.
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