The psychologically complex sequel to Barker’s The Women of Troy sees Cassandra - the captured daughter of the king of Troy - arrive in Mycenae, setting in motion a bloody train of events involving King Agamemnon, his wife Clytemnestra and daughter Electra.

Continuing the story of the captured Trojan women as they set sail for Mycenae with the victorious Greeks, this novel centres on the fate of Cassandra - daughter of King Priam, priestess of Apollo, and a prophet condemned never to be heeded. (When she refuses to have sex with Apollo, after he has kissed her, granting her the gift of true prophecy, he spits in her mouth to make sure she will never be believed.)

Psychologically complex and dangerously driven, Cassandra's arrival in Mycenae will set in motion a bloody train of events, drawing in King Agamemnon, his wife Clytemnestra and daughter Electra. Agamemnon's return from Troy is far from the celebration he imagined, and the fate of the Trojan women as uncertain as they had feared.