After a humiliating defeat at the Thousand Thrones, Amanda and a team of surgeons barely kept the mortally wounded Dee alive. But after she accepted the help of Dee's divine nemesis Aphrodite, the two Mythkillers parted ways. At last, Amanda's celestial mother Athena revealed her presence, but she also warned Amanda that the demigoddess was the gods' last, best hope to eliminate Kyros. If Amanda fails, it could mean the end of all things. Determined, Amanda journeyed alone to the villain's secret island compound in the Pacific. Meanwhile, Dee, Sipho and Mac recruited Karan and his squad of asura to follow Amanda into the lair of their enemy. But Kyros' lineage to the gods of death and destruction allowed him to summon to the fray a warrior even greater than Dee, the shade of Achilles himself. And now that Kyros is master of his own fate, it remains to be seen how it is even possible to defeat him...