On Stage
“What a lot of fuss over one who is just a face…” E. S. McLeod discusses her sparkling adult debut, Andromeda. Andromeda gives a voice to mythology’s most famous damsel in distress – a powerful, heart wrenching story that follows the princess of Aethiopia as she is torn between forbidden love and the wrath of the gods.
Andromeda has always known the price of beauty. Princess of Aethiopia, and blessed at birth by the goddesses Athena and Aphrodite, she is fated for greatness. When forced into a deal with Poseidon, deadly god of the seas, Andromeda seems destined for even greater things than her mother could have hoped for. But the deal also puts the queen’s life in Andromeda’s hands. Sent to guard Andromeda until judgement day is the shapeshifting Nereid Ceto, fearsome servant of Poseidon. Cold, scathing, and with little interest in the princess’s appearance, Ceto immediately stirs Andromeda’s resentment. Yet as time passes, their mutual loathing blossoms into something more passionate – and dangerous – than either could have predicted . . .
‘A thoughtful, poetic and compelling novel that quietly stole my heart’ Jennifer Saint, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ariadne
‘Utterly exquisite… nothing short of breath-taking’ Rosie Hewlett, Sunday Times bestselling author of Medea