Living in the constant shadow of her younger, prettier sister, Rachael Cromwell is having terrible luck with men. Her life takes a strange turn when a sudden influx of attractive men are flung her way, only to be removed in mysterious circumstances. She has no idea that petulant higher beings have taken an interest in her pathetic love life, making a contest out of her misery. Descending from Mount Olympus, the gods of Ancient Greece are playing with her emotions. Athena, goddess of wisdom and war, has one week to make Rachael fall in love with a detective named John Hatcher. Aphrodite, goddess of love, has one week to make sure that doesn't happen.Meanwhile, Detective Hatcher is himself looking into a bizarre spate of murders involving Amazon soldiers working for both Athena and Aphrodite. His investigation leads him to the Cromwell sisters and together the three of them begin to unwind the truth concerning beings none of them even believe in.Rachael Cromwell has never thought very highly of herself; she could never have imagined she would for one week become the object of a cross between a rom com and the Iliad.