Atalanta

Atalanta is a vivid, first‑person retelling of the Greek heroine the poets too often sidelined. Abandoned at birth and suckled by a bear, Atalanta is claimed by Artemis and forged into a huntress who fears no man and never misses a shot. When Jason calls for the greatest of Greece to sail for the Golden Fleece, Artemis sends Atalanta as her champion. That choice spirals her into a life of storm and song, Lemnian queens and Samothracian rites, Harpies and clashing rocks, Medea’s dangerous genius, and Jason’s frail leadership. She runs beside gods’ sons and outstrips them, and she learns that victory rarely feels like the bards promise. Love finds her with Meleager; grief remakes her in Calydon; and fate, sharpened by a prophecy that marriage will be her undoing, bends her toward Hippomenes and a brutal footrace no man should win. Through it all, Atalanta keeps one truth close: she alone decides how she runs. This is a tale of speed and defiance, of a woman who chooses her own legend.

• Fans of mythic retellings like Circe, Ariadne, and The Song of Achilles
• Listeners who love fierce female leads, complex gods, and moral gray
• Anyone curious how the Argonauts’ quest looks through a woman who outruns them all

Jennifer Saint read Classical Studies at King’s College London and taught English for over a decade before turning to fiction. Her internationally bestselling novels Ariadne, Elektra, and Atalanta re‑center the women of Greek myth with lyrical, intimate storytelling.