Lucy Halley
Lucy Halley is a law student and a writer of historical fiction and fantasy.She focuses on crafting loving, lyrical relationships between a beautiful variety of characters and enjoys exploring the depths and intricacies of love in each.Inspired by Madeline Miller and Costanza Casati, and the music of Hozier and Florence and the Machine, Lucy’s characters find themselves placed in some of the most intriguing, dramatic, and mysterious periods of history and mythology.Her debut novel, Hyacinthus, is a retelling of the mythical love story between the Spartan Prince Hyacinthus and the Olympian God Apollo.All enquiries to: [email protected]
ADULT HISTORICAL FANTASY
HYACINTHUS
'Even if the sun and moon tumbled from the heavens and the seas swelled onto land, and even if the stars burst into balls of flame and Olympus came crashing down to earth, it would be this, forever.It would be him, forever.'When the prince Hyacinthus becomes caught in the crossfire of a deadly rivalry between the Olympian Apollo and the jealous Zephyrus, he must find a way to ensure both his safety and eternal fame, or risk his name being scorched from memory by the fierce rays of the blazing sun.
ADULT HISTORICAL FICTION
ACHILLIA AND AMAZON
Revered gladiatrix Valda has claimed her most impressive victory yet; defeating the favoured champion of Emperor Domitian. Such a victory should surely guarantee her freedom from the arena, and a chance to begin her life anew, far from Rome.But any victory won in Rome carries with it a heavy price, and when Valda is forced to recreate the myth of Achilles and Penthesilea with the Greek Evadne, she is forced to consider whether her freedom is worth the price it asks of her, and whether the woman she is supposed to hate is truly her enemy.