This four-book-series follows a group of Florida teens who find out that they are the Greek Gods reincarnate. As they try to figure out who they are and why they’ve been locked away, they also have to navigate the drama of high school and occasional attacks from vengeful Titans.

What readers is this series aimed at?
The book is YA, but there are a couple of adult character trying to hold everything together that connect with older readers, too. There is some minor profanity, some violence, and some fairly tame sexuality, so I usually recommend it for teens sixteen and up or for teens fourteen and up with parental guidance.

Fair warning.
Tell us about these teens.
Each book has a character that it focuses on more than others. For the first book it was Zach, the reborn Zeus. For two it was Aphrodite and for three it was Hades. This book comes back to Zach a little, but it also focuses on Dr. Jason Livingstone, the hapless mortal adult who got dragged into all of this at the beginning.

Jason was a doctor, but when his wife died and he was left with three small children, he was in a dark place. He made some reckless career decisions that might have been the right thing to do at the time, but as a result he’s terribly underemployed as a school nurse.

In the last book we saw Jason taking a step back from the group for the safety of his kids. Events in the first chapter are going to suck him back in.

Have you written any other books that we should read next?
My publishing company and I agree that my best book is Rescue OR, Royer Goldhawk’s Remarkable Journal. It’s a Steampunk fantasy adventure set in 1883. Royer Goldhawk, a Columbia engineering student, witnesses a fly-by kidnapping of a girl he’s infatuated with, and after a series of chaotic events, finds himself taking off across the country on trains and then on horseback to track down the kidnapper and rescue the girl. Then something bad happens.

Tell us a bit about yourself.
I teach English and Mythology at a high school in Alabama. I’m originally from Massachusetts, but I met my husband at the Savannah College of Art and Design and we moved here for work. I have a Masters in Secondary Education. I’m also the Chief Web Officer for our family’s independent publishing company. I have two dogs and I’m an unabashed nerd.

Do you have a website where we can keep up with your work?
www.amyleighstrickland.com
@AmyLStrickland

What’s next?
I have to write the sequel to Royer Goldhawk, then I’m Kickstarting an Olympia Heights comic spin-off in October. If people are interested in Greek Gods in a comic, they should sign up for the mailing list at www.olympia-heights.com