In Persephone he sees an opportunity for revenge - and in Hades, Persephone sees the chance to have an affair so wild and public that Zeus will no longer want her. Strong, brooding Hades has shouldered the crushing responsibility of protecting the lower city ever since Zeus killed his parents, and very nearly him, when he was a boy. When socialite Persephone Dimitriou’s mother, Demeter, tries to force her into a strategic marriage to the much-older, alleged wife killer Zeus, Persephone flees the upper city of Olympus across the River Styx - and straight into the arms of Hades, the infamous ruler of the lower city. There’s nothing explicitly supernatural here instead, the gods’ powers are political. 'With this deliciously inventive retelling of Greek mythology, the Dark Olympus series launch, Robert (the Bloodline Vampires series) thrusts familiar figures into the present to intoxicating effect. With no options left, Persephone flees Olympus and makes a devil's bargain with a man she once believed was a myth.a man who awakens her heart and her body to a world she never knew existed. But that all goes down the drain when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city's dark facade. She has plans to leave the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start her life far away from the backstabbing and politics. SHIVERS.Society darling Persephone Dimitriou wants nothing to do with her mother's ambitions. 'I get shivers just thinking of their interactions. 'Deliciously inventive…Red-hot.'- Publishers Weekly STARRED Yet every breathless night spent tangled together has given Hades a taste for Persephone, and he'll go to war with Olympus itself to keep her close…

But when he finds that Persephone can offer a little slice of the revenge he's spent years craving, it's all the excuse he needs to help her-for a price. Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light.

With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil's bargain with a man she once believed a myth.a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed. But all that's ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city's dark facade. Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Hades and Persephone that's as sinful as it is sweet.* But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell…he was, quite simply, mine.

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