We know the Greek gods from mythology, and assume their stories ended there. They did not. This is a compelling new story about the Olympic gods in our century.

Now they appear in our time to prevent humans from discovering immortality. The Fates — three ancient goddesses who determined human life span — are reborn so they can manipulate events to restore the balance of life and death. Their machinations make this a classic Greek tale.

21st century Jack Night, a financial whiz, raises his daughter by himself in a bucolic Pennsylvania countryside. When she’s 19 extraordinary events begin, which include golden light and irresistible lust. Sightings of a massive, three-headed dog and the goddess Artemis occur in the backyard. He’s shocked to find his daughter is one of the Fates.

Jack finds himself pulled into the amoral world of Greek divinities and a mad rush to take down world-famous scientists. A second Fate — who claims to be his daughter — joins them at his estate. When a third daughter appears, the Fates are set for action.

The stakes rise and additional Greek goddess join in the fray. As scientists are picked off one by one, Jack is torn between conventional morality and loyalty to his daughters.

Just before the startling climax, Jack is aided by a nymph who is destined to become more powerful than the Olympic gods. She is the subject of Books II, III and IV.

This is a stand-alone novel or Book I of The Naxos Quartet.

The Greek gods once again take an active role in human events when one of Artemis’s nymphs is transformed into the primal Great Goddess. The reader is swept into tales of high fashion, Cycladic islands, satyrs, alliances between the gods, and a powerful love story. You’ll feel like you’re on a first name basis with these deities.

Timessa is chosen by Gaia to become the re-creation of the ancient Great Goddess from pre-history. In short order she becomes an internationally-famous fashion model and leader of a group of young followers. However, she is tormented by continuous mental and physical changes she does not understand. She finds some solace in the company of women, but is increasingly unhinged. The Olympic gods recognize her growing power, and are concerned about how she’ll use it.

Demonstrating her new abilities, she visits the desolate island of Delos south of Athens where she dances over the old stones. The alchemy of her ancient steps awakens several of the Olympic gods — 1600 years earlier they had retreated there to escape the changing world. Now the remaining divinities are astonished at her mastery of long-forgotten sacraments.

One of the divinities who escapes the island is the war-god Ares. Weeks later in a small town in France, Timessa and Artemis confront him in an epic battle -- only this time, the battle gear is Timessa’s shear bodice, ruffled skirt and stilettos. The conflict confirms her ascendence as a divinity whose powers supersede the Olympic gods.

This is a stand-alone novel or Book II of The Naxos Quartet.

Artemis’s new nymph Timessa fully embraces her transformation into the Great Goddess, a primal being who was worshipped throughout the ancient world. Her powers are second only to Gaia’s, and she doesn’t know what to do with them.

She’s gotten as far as understanding that humans and gods are part of the same family tree, and that humans are the mortal variation of the Homo species. Unlike Homo divinitas — what she calls the Greek gods — humans spend most of their lives worrying about death. That’s not an issue to the Olympians, whose lifetime seems immeasurable.

Like all of us, Timessa as the Great Goddess struggles to find purpose. She implements a plan to bestow happiness on the hundreds of young female models who adore her, and then to women everywhere. To do so she revives the ancient Eleusinian mysteries, rituals that saved ancient Athenians from extinction at death. As she anticipates, the rites work, but their use puts her in Gaia’s crosshairs.

Artemis and Apollo, Dionysos, Hephaistos, and other divinities see her as “the new wave” in the gods’s development, and provide assistance. Her attempts to ease human suffering set us up for one of the greatest love stories of all time.

This is a stand-alone novel or Book III of The Naxos Quartet.

The Great Goddess Timessa is challenged by Gaia to correct her predecessor’s ancient failings. She is ripped in time from the modern-day Greek island of Naxos to Europe of 40,000 years ago.

There the original Great Goddess reigned over a peaceful, matriarchal society. But barbarians began to invade. For millennia she successfully defended her lands. Unexpectedly, she developed a conscience and could no longer kill the hoards who would rule and subjugate women. Men took over, and we see the results in the constant wars throughout the world today.

Gaia challenges Timessa to redo the old Great Goddess’s decisions, and throws her back in time. Timessa is forced to relive the ancient goddess’s trials, all the while chided by Gaia and confronted at every turn. The Olympic gods hold their breath as they watch Timessa struggle.

Concluding that Timessa, like her predecessor, has failed, Gaia strips her of her powers. The event forces the enfeebled Timessa to look inside herself and discover what all of us seek.

Readers may be interested to know that Gaia always materializes to Timessa as a 9-year-old girl learning ballet so she doesn’t overwhelm her.

This is a stand-alone novel or Book IV of The Naxos Quartet.