Alexis never knew she was Spartan.

Raised in the gutters by abusive foster parents, she fought her way through life—starving, hunted, and forgotten. At sixteen, she was dragged into the Spartan camps, where she learned the truth: she was the last of a disgraced bloodline, the only woman to ever be trained as a Spartan warrior.

Her mentors—Kharon, Augustus, Achilles, and Patroclus—saw her as nothing more than a burden. Kharon was cold, Augustus indifferent, Achilles cruel, and Patroclus distant. She hated them. They didn’t care enough to hate her back.

Years passed. Alexis carved her name into Spartan history with blood and blade. Then came the collapse—and the political solution: a forced marriage between her and two of her former mentors.

Kharon. Augustus.

The marriage was ice and fire. They didn’t want her. She didn’t need them. But something shifted. In war, they saw her strength. In silence, her pain. And slowly, resentment turned to respect. Then obsession.

Achilles returned from exile with a dangerous hunger for her. Patroclus came offering quiet love. All four—once her tormentors—now worshipped the ground she walked on.

When her true lineage was uncovered, when the truth of her stolen childhood surfaced, she shattered—and they all knelt.

Alexis married Kharon and Augustus. But her heart was not bound by law. Achilles and Patroclus stayed. As protectors. As lovers.

Once a homeless deathly girl. Now the most beautiful, and powerful woman in the universe.