Through Fire, He Shall Ascend

Book Blurb — An Songs of the Dyson Swarm
Under a sky of mirror-plates and engineered constellations, a prophecy splits a city in two. Deianeira of Trachis keeps vigil for her long-silent husband, Alcides—the Swarm’s living legend—while the Temple’s oracle AI hisses a riddle of death, fire, and ascent. When a quantum message finally declares victory and homecoming, Trachis erupts… but joy has a shadow.
Alcides returns as conqueror turned peacemaker, freeing captives and ending the war. Among them is Princess Iole, whose presence stirs whispers sharp enough to cut a marriage. In a palace of holo-birds and quiet gossip, love curdles into fear—and a desperate wife reaches for a “charm” woven with a dying exile’s blood.
On the day of thanksgiving, the gift becomes a curse. Poisoned by Hydra nanotech, Alcides chooses his ending and his legend: a pyre on Mount Oeta, a pillar of light, and the thunder of an eagle from the Ascended realms. As a new star kindles over the plate, his son Hyllus must transform grief into governance—binding Trachis and ruined Oechalia through mercy, rebuilding, and a marriage freely chosen with Iole.
Blending myth and far-future science—oracle implants, quantum relays, divine nanites—this saga charts jealousy, forgiveness, and the price of heroism in a civilization that prays to its posthuman gods and still bleeds like ours. An Songs of the Dyson Swarm is the tale of a hero who becomes legend—and of those left behind to live in his light.