A queen.

A mother.

A monster.

A throne built on blood.

An incredible feminist retelling of a woman wronged by myth.

Now it’s time for her to tell her story.

Princess Pasiphae of Kolchis is sent to Knossos to secure the throne, but she soon finds herself entangled in a brutal power struggle. As the Mother cult demands blood and Minos seeks to overturn ancient rule, she fights to protect her children; Asterion, her gentle son marked as a monster, and Ariadne, the ambitious daughter who rejects her.

Betrayals, sacrifices, and shifting allegiances shape the kingdom’s fate. When Theseus arrives to claim his prize, Knossos falls, leaving Pasiphae to face the ghosts of all she has lost.

PASIPHAË is a reimagining of the story of the Queen of Crete before Theseus and the myth of the Minotaur replaced her historical reality. PASIPHAË would fit on the same shelf as Madeleine Miller’s Circe, but is closer to the historical style of Pat Barker’s Silence of the Girls and The Women of Troy. When history is as ancient as the Minoan civilisation, and when so few facts are available, it merges easily into myth and storytelling, in a region of its own, between history and myth.