When Love Wears the Skin of a Demon There are secrets that smell of rose water and saffron. Others stink of turned earth, of congealed blood, of flesh left too long in the sun. In the glorious Baghdad of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, where the markets exploded with color and the mosques rose like marble fingers toward the sky, there lived a young man named Sidi-Nouman. He was neither a prince nor a warrior covered in scars. His ancestors, prudent and wise men, had left him a modest but solid fortune. Sidi-Nouman lived in a house with shaded courtyards, without ostentation, but sheltered from the storms of poverty. And yet, in its silent corridors, an echo was missing. A companion was missing. When, according to the inexorable customs of the time, a young woman named Amina was promised to him as a bride, Sidi-Nouman believed he had touched paradise. On the wedding day, when his trembling fingers lifted the embroidered silk veil, his breath broke in his throat. Amina possessed a be...
In an era of chaos and primordial forces, Olympus had not yet come into existence. Cronus had just overthrown Uranus, but the thirst for power knew no bounds. Thus began a series of unprecedented wars: the Titanomachy, where Zeus and his siblings challenge the Titans; the Gigantomachy, unleashed by Gaia’s wrath; and finally the Typhonomachy, with the emergence of Typhon, the greatest threat ever faced by the gods. A weave of titanic struggles, impossible alliances, and battles that shook both heaven and earth, culminating in the final establishment of Olympian dominance.