Since the death of her son, Daniel, half-human, half-fury Lyta Hall has wandered through a wasteland of meaningless sex and desperate grief. But a strange coincidence throws her into the company of a travelling theatre troupe in Athens. Instead of revisiting her Greek heritage to help restore her sanity, Lyta finds herself lost in the dank pits of Hades. And, ultimately, she becomes a pawn in a deadly game between the most powerful mythological gods in history and the inimitable triple threat that is The Furies.