Bringer of Fire — Michele Amitrani

Sometimes the truths we choose to ignore cast the longest shadows … In the distant Caucasus Mountains, an ancient demon is chained to a rock. People say the gods put him there as punishment for an unspeakable crime, for which the penalty is perennial damnation. When Zid, an explorer with a faulty leg and an inquisitive mind, learns the legend of the demon, he sets out to find the truth. But after a heartbreaking discovery on a bleak mountainside, the tale begins to crumble. Zid is left questioning the truth behind the origins of humankind and the biggest threat to human liberty. Will Zid risk his own life to fight the gods' treachery? He must choose between friendship and freedom as his actions set him against the most powerful of the Olympian gods: Zeus himself.