Measured Steps in Solitude

After her father's remarriage, nine-year-old Artemis's world becomes colored in shades of grey cynicism and pale hostility. Even though the rest of her family happily ignores Zeus's betrayal, it's been day in and out of apathy for Artemis... Then her mother adopts a boy with startling sea-green eyes and red scratches on his wrists. Everything changes from there. Pertemis