The Empress Irini Series is a coming of age, four-part YA series set in the Roman Empire of the East – brimming with fear, intrigue and violence. In this series, Janet McGiffin presents us with a world in which banal realities like hunger and survival sit cheek by jowl with the fantastical worlds of Medieval Christianity and Greek Mythology: Fates, curses, miracles and the ghosts of bygone patriarchs. Our central character, Thekla, a seventeen year old on the run in Constantinople, must rely solely upon her own courage and quick wits to survive this vigorous, glittering capital of the East.
Volume 1, Betrothal & Betrayal and Volume 2, Poison Is a Woman’s Weapon will be available from Scotland Street Press beginning August 1st.