The House of Kadmos, a prestigious royal family, has been plagued with misfortune since its founding. An attempt to sacrifice one member, the non-essential princess Megara, backfires as the girl returns with a vengeance as a witch. Now the fate of the family is in peril, and not even the mighty champion Herakles can stop the trajectory of all these doomed souls. Such is the wrath of the witch.

Everyone knows something about Herakles, but more of it is hearsay than he's strictly comfortable with. Some say he's lecherous and callous, others call him an oaf, a buffoon... Behind all that, there lies a confused young man, who seeks to make something of himself. Two paths lie before him, one of leisure and sloth, or agony and glory. Only one will create a hero, and it will be a long road.

Megara, renegade witch-princess, is fleeing the ruins of her life. Pursued by the implacable wrath of the Furies, she seeks seven Necromancers, hoping to send them to Tartaros in her place, all the while haunted by the rising fear of repeating her past. Herakles chases after the woman he's loved since childhood, aware of the Furies hounding her steps, and that there is less and less time to bring her to safety. For a war brews, which threatens to rip Olympus asunder. Neither can afford to keep running, but neither can give up the chase.

Of all the attacks Hera, Queen of the Gods, could have launched against her bitter enemy Herakles, none could so thoroughly punish him for living than destroying his entire family though him. With his family's blood on his hands, the hero's self loathing has become his worst enemy, despite the growing list of contenders. Whether it is King Eurystheus of Mykenae or Augeas of Elis, Herakles's fight to honor the memory of his family is opposed by no force stronger than the agony in his own psyche.

Newly knighted, both Gareth of Orkney and Linnet of Perilous strike out in the world to make their names in the ranks of the Round Table. While it seems at first that they are unshakable, they find how easily they could be torn apart if they fail to find balance. Whether Linnet chooses to accept the defensive privileges due a lady or breaks free as a knight, their love will find its first true trial, and still may not survive.

The stability of the Planetary Empire of Kartavya has been assured for generations, secure under the power of Aadi the Uniter and his descendants... It would continue to be so well assured if not for the fact that the heirs apparent are widely viewed as too weak for the task of matching up to the legacy.

Life on Kartavya was difficult enough before it became so confusing. When everything fit neatly into its own box, such as knowing exactly who was the enemy of whom, even if nobody said it out loud, for example. Princess Shefali is doing her best to associate fairly with a gutter peasant who has somehow become her closest friend, along with enemies encroaching on her inner circle. Crown Prince Raza's education uncovered years of abuse by his own dynasty against the people of the Empire. His own attempts to prepare himself for a more humane reign threaten his very life, but will his courage be...