Pasithea’s City is a pair of novels set in an alternate version of Earth, around the time of Late Period Egypt. There’s magic, gods, journeys, survival, apocalypses, and how to keep your culture and religion alive.
Pasithea’s City tells the story of Andreas, a petty thief, who finds himself taken in by Hermes on the eve of the destruction of the city he has spent his life living outside of. No longer willing to tolerate their impiety, Apollon suddenly and violently withdraws his patronage from Neos Apollonia, and sends the city back to the sands of the Libyan Desert. Andreas, his two mothers, and two Seers from the city, are the only ones to survive, and Hermes has his own plans as to where they ought to go, now that the city is buried under the sand.
The Black Priest begins in Egypt, where the last high priest of the temple of Sobek in Dja is preparing to abandon the temple, along with the few temple staff still with him. Egypt lies in ruins, the Pharaoh and his family have been slaughtered, and foreign gods and armies have brought the Two Lands to their knees. With nothing more than the sacred icons from the temple, some camels, and what little they had left to take with them, the High Priest leads them into the west, into the desert, where nothing is certain, and the path is unclear, except that it leads them away from the invaders. Deep down, from far, far away, the ancestors begin calling them home, to a place they have never been before.
Pasithea's City 