Selah Barnes
Her father gave her to a prince. Pella gave herself a new name.In ancient Greece, where women are not permitted the same education as men, nineteen-year-old Pella cuts her hair, takes the name Pietros, and climbs into the mountains to apprentice beneath Alexios, a brilliant sculptor-poet who has long since traded the world of men for stone and solitude.What begins as a lie told for the sake of freedom becomes far more dangerous when Pella falls in love with the one man who can never know the truth of who she is.Set in a mythic world of gods, war, sea, and marble, Pella is a mythical novel of art, forbidden love, and a woman determined to carve herself into the world before the world can decide what remains of her. 6