She ran away with Odysseus from her native Sparta, marrying despite her father’s prohibition, and paid for the short female happiness with twenty years of separation. Twenty years of waiting and prayer, twenty years of loneliness and cold nights... Even when the heroes of the Trojan War had long returned from a foreign land, when all imaginable deadlines had passed and no one hoped that Odysseus was alive, Penelope continued to believe and wait... While he was besieging Troy and wandered around the Ecumene - she held a siege against a crowd of suitors, raised her son and actually ruled Ithaca, defying human laws, merciless fate, and cruel Chronos - after all, she was already under forty (in the Ancient world this was almost old age!), her age Elena the Beautiful long ago turned gray and ugly, but Penelope remained the same despite the merciless time. All of Hellas gossiped about her “eternal youth”, all the women wondered what secret ointments and ointments preserved her unfading beauty, but there was no secret: she just wanted Odysseus to have something to return for. She knew: her image would become his guiding star, her loyalty would keep him in all dangers and hardships, her love, like an unquenchable beacon, would show him the way home... Read the new novel from the bestselling author of “Cleopatra”, “Nefertiti” and “Princess Olga” - an amazing story of great love, over which neither years, nor distances, nor the gods themselves have power!