Historical Romantic Adventure

At seventeen, Eleni watches her Greek parents murdered by the brutal bandit leader Jabir. Captured and sold into slavery, she is taken to Constantinople, where she survives the Ottoman palace by turning the qualities meant to make her desirable—her beauty, intelligence, and sensuality—into sources of power.

Over more than five years, Eleni becomes Nemesis: a gifted storyteller, a trusted companion to Sultan Suleiman, and a woman who learns to shape her own fate. When she uncovers a plot to assassinate the Sultan, she risks her life to save him. In return, he grants her the freedom she has wanted above all else—and reveals that her younger brother Nikos is still alive, serving among Jabir's bandits in Algiers.

Accompanied by Andreas, a Greek warrior who was captured as a boy, Nemesis sets out across the desert. As Andreas trains her to fight, their shared wounds draw them into an unexpected love. But reaching Algiers means confronting the past she has spent years preparing to destroy.

When Nemesis finally finds Jabir, he is dying—but her brother stands between them, hardened into the very world that stole them both. To claim her revenge, she may have to kill the last person who remembers who she truly was.

A sweeping tale of survival, freedom, forbidden love, and the courage to decide what vengeance means.