The Sleeping Goddesses: A Dark Renaissance Fantasy of Exile, Vengeance, and Forbidden Gods

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About The Sleeping Goddesses: A Dark Renaissance Fantasy of Exile, Vengeance, and Forbidden Gods

Power belongs to men. Divinity belongs to women. And the goddesses are waking. Medici meets George R.R. Martin in a Renaissance-inspired dark epic fantasy saga of love, exile, vengeance, and bloody religious war. Young Beatrice Feski smiles at court and listens. Beyond the palace walls, she's an entrepreneur, spymaster's protégée, and owner of a gladiator stable. In a world where magic belongs only to women, she's learned to wield steel, gold, and secrets instead. But when a bloody palace coup tears the city apart, Beatrice makes a choice that binds her fate to three brothers, heirs of a dynasty torn from power. Their father murdered in his own hall. Their stepmother opened the gates to the enemy. They escaped as their city fell — and fled across the sea to kinsmen they believed would help them fight back. Someone wants the Scaliger name erased from history. And the brothers are walking into a trap they can't see. Their only hope doesn't look like a hero. A mysterious bond forms between Beatrice and the middle brother — shared dreams, foreign memories, visions that feel like prophecy. Something ancient is reaching for them. Because a holy war is brewing. Hecate the Devourer has ruled for three centuries — but the vanquished pagan goddesses are waking, whispering to the desperate, choosing champions, demanding sacrifice. And they never give freely. For readers of Joe Abercrombie, Guy Gavriel Kay, and R.F. Kuang.

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