This was the second attempt at this book - the first being when I was a teenager and I just couldn't get through it.  This time was totally different.  A very complex and compelling story taking us back to the days of the ancient Greek gods.  With the fall of the ancient Labyrinth, evil is unleashed on the Greek world and civilization quickly crumbles.  Far away on the coast of what will one day be England, one small outpost thrives with the Mistress of the Labyrinth as it's leader.  Calling out to her partner, the Kingman, she sets in motion a devastating series of events that will either lead the world into the light, or destroy it forever.