Ajax Aianteia is an eternal, who grants his services to the highest bidder. Living ions in the shadows, he has been hired with stalking and getting close to Agatha Gorgo. Niece of Medusa and daughter of Sthenno, the deadliest of the gorgon sisters. With her two cousins, Agatha has blended into the human world to escape her domineering mother. Feeling an inexplicable draw to Ajax, she let him into her world, not knowing his ulterior motives. When one of her cousins is kidnapped, not sure who to trust, or where to turn, but she knows what she must do. She will not sit idly by and let her cousin suffer. She asks Ajax, a relative stranger, to help her find and rescue her cousin. A ransom is offered and it is the Aegis, the shield used to kill her aunt to exchange for her cousin’s life. Agatha has to travel back to the place she swore she would never go back to, to steal the Aegis. The island of Sarpedon, home of her mother.