What if the gods of Olympus were never gods at all?King Tantalus has spent his life believing the Olympians are immortal, all-knowing beings worthy of worship and fear. But beneath the sacred mountain, he discovers something that changes everything: proof that the gods are hiding a secret far stranger than their divinity.If the gods can be repaired. Replaced. Rebuilt. Then perhaps nothing about them is as absolute as the world has been led to believe.Tantalus decides to test that theory, and he chooses the one experiment no god could ignore. What he sets in motion at his own dinner table will cost him everything he loves and unleash a curse that will echo for generations.THE FEAST OF TANTALUS reimagines Greek mythology as the surviving memory of a civilization far older and stranger than the legends suggest, where miracles have explanations, immortality has machinery, and the gods of Olympus are not what they seem.Begin the House of Atreus series with this free short story, and discover what really happened before the legends of Pelops, Atreus, Agamemnon, and Odysseus became myth. Then continue the story with the second free prequel, THE CHARIOT OF PISA, as Pelops grows up and stakes his own claim in a race no one has ever survived.

What if the gods of Olympus were never gods at all?King Tantalus has spent his life believing the Olympians are immortal, all-knowing beings worthy of worship and fear. But beneath the sacred mountain, he discovers something that changes everything: proof that the gods are hiding a secret far stranger than their divinity.If the gods can be repaired. Replaced. Rebuilt. Then perhaps nothing about them is as absolute as the world has been led to believe.Tantalus decides to test that theory, and he chooses the one experiment no god could ignore. What he sets in motion at his own dinner table will cost him everything he loves and unleash a curse that will echo for generations.THE FEAST OF TANTALUS reimagines Greek mythology as the surviving memory of a civilization far older and stranger than the legends suggest, where miracles have explanations, immortality has machinery, and the gods of Olympus are not what they seem.Begin the House of Atreus series with this free short story, and discover what really happened before the legends of Pelops, Atreus, Agamemnon, and Odysseus became myth. Then continue the story with the second free prequel, THE CHARIOT OF PISA, as Pelops grows up and stakes his own claim in a race no one has ever survived.

What if the gods of Olympus were never gods at all?King Tantalus has spent his life believing the Olympians are immortal, all-knowing beings worthy of worship and fear. But beneath the sacred mountain, he discovers something that changes everything: proof that the gods are hiding a secret far stranger than their divinity.If the gods can be repaired. Replaced. Rebuilt. Then perhaps nothing about them is as absolute as the world has been led to believe.Tantalus decides to test that theory, and he chooses the one experiment no god could ignore. What he sets in motion at his own dinner table will cost him everything he loves and unleash a curse that will echo for generations.THE FEAST OF TANTALUS reimagines Greek mythology as the surviving memory of a civilization far older and stranger than the legends suggest, where miracles have explanations, immortality has machinery, and the gods of Olympus are not what they seem.Begin the House of Atreus series with this free short story, and discover what really happened before the legends of Pelops, Atreus, Agamemnon, and Odysseus became myth. Then continue the story with the second free prequel, THE CHARIOT OF PISA, as Pelops grows up and stakes his own claim in a race no one has ever survived.