Hades' Daughter is a fantasy novel by Australian writer by Sara Douglass,[1] the first book in the Troy Game series.

The story's actions are mainly between Naxos, western Greece and the mysterious land of Llangarlia in the Isle of Albion (Britain).

After wandering among the islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea and through Gaul, where he founds the city of Tours, Brutus eventually comes to the Isle of Albion, Britain, names it after himself, and fills it with his descendants.

Epic in proportion, she is tackling nothing less than the course of Western civilization, from the fall of Troy until the Second World War, all set against a rotating cast of eternal heroes and villains and the Byzantine game they play – The Troy Game...Douglass draws her background from Greek mythology, the Iliad and Aeneid, as well as Geoffrey of Monmouth's account in Historia Regum Britanniae of the founding of Britain by Brutus, a descendent of Aeneas.

She weaves these disparate mythical backgrounds together well, along with conjecture on the pre-Brutus beliefs indigenous to the British Isles...One of the strengths of Hades' Daughter is Douglass's decision not to present any of her characters as heroes or villains of the piece...Douglass's greatest strength is her ability to create interesting, believable, and well-researched worlds.