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For the first time in history, the gods are on trial.

Twelve mortals. Stolen from across time, across cultures, across everything they knew. They are forced into a metaphysical courtroom that shouldn't even exist at all. Their sole task: to a judge a man who killed his mother on a god's command. Their discovery, once the testimony begins? That is may be the gods, themselves, who ought to be in chains.

Who is really on trial? Orestes, the gods, or humanity itself?

This is the climax the entire saga has been building toward: a mythic courtroom thriller where divine authority unravels under oath, a defendant shocks the court by refusing to be saved, and twelve ordinary people must deliver a verdict that will decide whether civilization deserves to govern itself... or whether something far darker will govern it instead.

Perfect for fans of Circe, The Song of Achilles, Dune, and The Brothers Karamazov.

What happens when the God of Truth takes the stand, and realizes, mid‑testimony, that he didn't understand the command that began this entire tragedy?

What happens when a defendant is offered absolution, and refuses it, because he will not be saved unless the gods are judged alongside him?

What happens when twelve people who never asked to be here, who will have their memories erased when it's over, find themselves holding the fate of human civilization in their hands?

The verdict will not be what anyone expected. Its consequences will outlast the gods themselves.

The House of Atreus saga has been called "mythic storytelling at its most fearless."Book 7 is its reckoning.