Hero - Katie Buckley

he's a waitress. He's a chef. They used to be best friends, but now, they're in love and living together in a studio apartment.She's also a selkie, Odysseus, and a cowgirl called Quick Fingers. He's a really good man.When he asks her to marry him, Hero panics. She is lots of things but one thing she doesn't want to be is anybody's wife.Drawing on a rich history of myth and legend, Hero is a story about what it means for women to be supporting characters in a world written by men.How can you be yourself when you are a product of other people's imaginations? How can you love another person and be free?