*Book 3 of the Niobe Trilogy* Queen Niobe of Thebes must deal with escalating political tensions between her husband Amphion and her powerful brother, King Pelops of Pisa. Meanwhile Pelops' wife Hippodamia fears her husband will choose the bastard Prince Chrysippus over her own sons, Atreus and Thyestes. The murder Hippodamia plots to protect her sons is only the beginning of the bloodshed...and the fate of Niobe's daughter Chloris hangs in the balance.