Scythian Trilogy Book 2: The Golden King

Scythian Trilogy #2

by Max Overton

Captured by the warlike, tribal Scythians who bicker amongst themselves and bitterly resent outside interference, a fiercely loyal captain in Alexander the Great's Companion Cavalry Nikometros and his men are to be sacrificed to the Mother Goddess. Lucky chance--and the timely intervention of Tomyra, priestess and daughter of the Massegetae chieftain--allows him to defeat the Champion. With their immediate survival secured, acceptance into the tribe...and escape...is complicated by the captain's growing feelings for Tomyra--death to any who touch her--and the chief's son Areipithes who not only detests Nikometros and wants to have him killed or banished but intends to murder his own father and take over the tribe.

The chief of the tribe of nomadic Scythian horsemen is dead, killed by his son's treachery. The priestess, lover of the young cavalry officer, Nikometros, is carried off into the mountains. Nikometros and his friends set off in hard pursuit.
Death rides with them. By the time they return, the tribes are at war. Nikometros must choose between attempting to become chief himself or leaving the people he's come to love and respect to return to his duty as an army officer in the Empire of Alexander.

408 pages, Paperback

Published July 15, 2019

Reviews

[Steve Hague · Rating 5 out of 5]

After reading the first book, I immediately purchased the second book in the trilogy. And again read it from cover to cover without putting it down. Max Overton brought the characters alive and danced in front of my eyes the whole time I was reading this book. I'd highly recommend it.

[Greg · Rating 2 out of 5]

Tedious read. I had nothing else to read and was sick in bed so I read this trilogy. So not good.