Hero Trilogy Books in Order

The Hero Trilogy steps away from 1930s Australia into the world of Greek myth, but it keeps Sulari Gentill’s focus on close-knit groups and moral choices. Aimed at teen readers, the books follow Hero, a young woman with failing eyesight, and her three foster brothers, Mac, Cad, and Lycon.

They are herdsmen from Mount Ida, a hidden people who for years have secretly fed the besieged city of Troy through tunnels under its walls. When Troy falls, the Herdsmen are falsely accused of betrayal and branded cowards and traitors. To clear their name and save their exiled community, Hero and the boys set out after the one man who knows what really happened: Odysseus, the wily strategist of the Greek army.

Their journey in Chasing Odysseus takes them across a magical Mediterranean, sailing a ship that can slip between myth and reality. Along the way they meet sirens, sorcerers, sea monsters, and quarrelling gods, weaving through episodes readers may recognise from The Iliad and The Odyssey while always keeping the focus on the four young adventurers.

The books feel familiar and strange at the same time.

Later volumes deepen the story, sending the siblings back to the ruins of Troy, into battles between rival gods, and among refugees searching for a promised new homeland. Threads from Virgil’s Aeneid mingle with werewolf legends, questions of loyalty and faith, and the messy business of growing up in a world where prophecies do not always lead where you expect.

Across the trilogy, Gentill treats myth as a living landscape rather than a fixed script. Hero is devout but unsure, her brothers are brave in very different ways, and the gods themselves can be petty, terrifying, or unexpectedly kind. The result is a fast-moving, sea-soaked quest story that lets younger readers explore big ideas about destiny, identity, and forgiveness while racing from one cliffhanger to the next.