The Muse and Her Thief

Alexander of Macedon vanquished every empire that stood against him, wept because there were no more worlds to conquer, and died of a plate of bad oysters. As his spear-won lands descended into anarchy, the two most powerful generals in the Mediterranean squabbled over his legacy—and played a game of international tug-of-war over his mortal remains.

 Egypt, 321 BC

Driven by guilt for his role in the burning of the Archive of Persepolis, swashbuckling schoolteacher-by-day, thief-by-night Demetrios has spent the last decade stealing back its looted artifacts and texts from the treasuries of Alexander’s successors. When a literal goddess only he can see offers him a shot at redemption in exchange for a bit of royal corpse-snatching, he recruits a motley heist crew and sets out to intercept the funeral cortege.

Our hero is up against warring generals, fanatical soldiers, an unpredictable barbarian dowager, a herd of war elephants, and a guard hellhound chained to a temple on wheels at the head of the greatest funeral cortege the Mediterranean world has ever seen. 

But it’s from the faith of mortals that hungry and volatile new gods are wrought, and there’s an awful lot of faith in the deified Alexander floating around…

LIBRARIANS OF ALEXANDRIA: THE MUSE AND HER THIEF is what you’d get if Indiana Jones took place in the fourth century B.C. and involved slightly more necromancy. 

Release date: probably 2027