This is book five in the Eternal Guardians series and is about Gryphon, the Argonaut who was rescued by his brother, Orpheus, in the previous book. He was tortured in the Underworld for three months and this story deals with the repercussions. Gryphon was bound to the evil goddess Atalanta while in the Underworld, and now he hears her voice constantly calling to him and he thinks the only way to stop it is to kill her. He doesn't know how to escape from the colony where he recovering, but Maelea does. She's been in the colony hiding from Hades, the evil god of the Underworld who is married to her mother and hates her. But Maelea is afraid that he will send his hellhounds for her and end up killing many innocents, so she plans her escape. However, Gryphon intercepts her on the way out and gets them into dangerous situations in the process.
More world building and new creatures kept the story interesting when it seemed like Gryphon was so hopelessly damaged that he would never be likable. Thankfully, Naughton redeems him and also makes Maelea a character in which the reader can be proud. Now I have to wait for book six to be published. 374 pages.
(See my previous posts on book 1, "
Marked," book 2, "
Entwined," book 3, "
Tempted," and book 4 "
Enraptured.")
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