Psyche has always been worshipped. The problem is that worship and love are not the same thing - and in twenty years of being treated as a shrine, no one has ever come close to knowing who she actually is.

When the Oracle speaks, it says she is not meant for a mortal husband. She is to be left on a high rock for something that comes from the air, something the gods themselves fear. She goes - not because she has no choice, but because the life she has been living is not a life worth saving.

What she finds is not a monster. It is a voice in the dark, a palace built entirely for her, and someone who wants - for the first time in her existence - to know her rather than to worship her. She learns to love what she cannot see. She builds something real in the dark.

And then she lights the lamp.

What follows is one of the oldest stories ever told, rendered here with complete interior depth: the tasks Aphrodite sets - each one designed to be impossible, each one requiring a specific quality of trust and endurance - the descent into the underworld, the box that she is told not to open, and the box that she opens anyway. Because she is, she has always been, and she will always be, a person who looks.

PSYCHE: WHAT LOVE REQUIRED is a literary novel drawn from ancient Greek mythology. It is the story of what it costs to be chosen by something larger than yourself, what it takes to keep moving when the impossible arrives in sequence, and what happens when the quality that creates your greatest failure is the same quality that creates your only possible redemption.

A story about curiosity. About the lamp and the box. About love that requires everything - and the mortal woman who gave it, not gracefully, not without failure, but completely.

About the Author

[Ioakim] spent years researching and imagining a
world on the brink. When not writing, they can be
found exploring forgotten archives, debating
current events, or dreaming up the next big story.
He live "in a quiet town near the sea with his family

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