Hercules' Blood

Year 2090. USA, Montana. My name is Alexis Hert and I am an orphan. I fight for survival in a world teeming with titans, where Spartans - immortals with divine powers and obscene wealth - rule everything. Where Chthonic beings... - pure evil in flesh, kill and destroy indiscriminately. A shy stutterer with no past or future, I stubbornly study to survive. At least, I try. On the day of my coming of age, my blood analysis shows that I am a once-abandoned child of a Spartan and a human. Now I am forced to undergo the Crucible, the most torturous trial of all time, to become immortal. And there is no choice. It can't get worse? There is still something else... Achilles and Patroclus are my terrifying mentors. Charon and Augustus are my dreadful teachers. I am surrounded by the worst among the Immortals. And they suffocate me with their hatred and dark desires. But they have no idea who they are dealing with…