The Carrion Rain

The Trojan War grinds onward, a decade of unremitting siege warfare with no victor or end in sight. Amid the chaos and desolation, Agamemnon takes a captured Trojan maiden as a bed-slave. But Chryseis is daughter to a hallowed priest of Apollo, and soon enough, her father invokes the god’s sanctity to petition for her freedom.Agamemnon spurns the priest’s demands, and has him hounded back to Troy for his troubles. But the son of Leto sees all, and is not one to suffer slights. Taking up his bow of burnished silver, Apollo smites the Greek camp with profane sickness, and sets ripples of tragedy in motion…