For fans of Nicola Yoon and Nicholas Sparks, Becoming Athena grants a tender look at the grandiose highs and heartbreak of YA coming of age, marking one girl's evolution from girl to goddess.
Unlike her high school classmates who yearn for glory or romance, Scarlet Leone clings to science and Greek Mythology to cope with a tragic home life. Love, especially if it mirrors her parent's relationship, has no place in her mythos. Until Cy Smith, the Mormon boy next door who Scarlet casts as Apollo, asks for her help with his astronomy paper. Soon, Scarlet finds herself bruised from battling her own heart as a foreign intimacy uproots her from all that she has known and believed. Over the span of several years, Scarlet discovers a love so heroic it deserves to be written in the night sky
