Cassandra spent five devoted years standing loyally beside Perseus as his esteemed battle companion, only to discover he shamelessly favors her manipulative stepsister at every turn. When Perseus attempts to trade her welfare away to safeguard his favorite girl, Cassandra decides she is entirely finished playing the dutiful martyr.
Taking her scheming stepsister's unwanted place, Cassandra calmly walks down the aisle to wed Abel, the dreaded heir of the underworld. When Perseus finally realizes that Cassandra was the brave soul who pulled him from childhood ashes, his frantic remorse arrives far too late to breach her impenetrable new fortress.
