The Death and Life of Iphigenia (Songs and Lies #1)

Shortlisted for the 2024 Novel London Literary Prize
First Place, 2025 Chanticleer International Book Awards (Chaucer Division)

She was never meant to choose. Only to be chosen.

As the Greek fleet gathers for war, Iphigenia—daughter of King Agamemnon—is summoned to Aulis under a false promise. What awaits her is not a marriage, but an altar. A bargain struck between kings and gods, and her life is the price of glory.

But death is not the end of her story.

Torn from everything she knew and bound to sacred rites that stain her hands and fracture her identity, Iphigenia becomes something forged by survival, by silence, and by the brutal logic of the world she now inhabits. The girl she was recedes. What remains is harder. Sharper. And very, very dangerous.

Fourteen years later, a chance at freedom arrives. But returning home means facing everything that was taken from her, and everything she has become.

In a world ruled by men, myth, and memory, she must decide what she is willing to reclaim.

And what she is willing to destroy.

Perfect for readers of Madeline Miller, Natalie Haynes, and Jennifer Saint.