The Sleeping Goddesses (The Sleeping Goddesses, #1)

Power belongs to men. Divinity belongs to women. The goddesses are no longer asleep.

Love, betrayal, naval battles, blood magic, eldritch horrors, and the slow return of goddesses this world had learned to live without.

For three centuries, Hecate the Three-Faced has ruled through blood and faith — three faces, one hunger, and an empire that crowned her at the cost of half a continent drowned beneath the waves. The twelve goddesses she defeated were never killed. They were buried. Drowned. Sealed beneath stone and silence. Now, one by one, they are waking — and they have not forgotten who put them there.

Three exiled brothers. A young woman who smiles at court by day and runs a gladiator stable and a spy network by night. A continent torn open by a bloody religious war between the cult of the Three-Faced One and the rising faith of the Twelve. Cathedrals burning. Cities choosing sides. Ancient goddesses stirring beneath crumbling temples, choosing champions, demanding sacrifice.

In a world where magic belongs exclusively to women, thrones mean nothing without divine favor. Spymasters, warrior-priestesses, and empire-builders in silk — the women of this saga wield power that kings can only fear.

This is The Sleeping Goddesses: a Renaissance-inspired dark epic fantasy tetralogy of love, war, sacrifice, and the price of waking goddesses who never asked to be forgotten.

For readers of Joe Abercrombie, George R.R. Martin, Guy Gavriel Kay, and R.F. Kuang.