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A Touch of Darkness
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2019-05-24
- Rating
- ★ 3.5 · 436 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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Persephone, the Goddess of Spring in title only, cannot make flowers grow at her touch and hides her divine nature by posing as a mortal journalist in New Athens. Her quiet life shatters when she enters a forbidden nightclub and strikes a bargain with Hades, the God of the Dead who runs a gambling empire among mortals. Hades binds her to an impossible contract: she must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. As Persephone struggles with her failure as a goddess and fights for her autonomy, an adversarial dynamic with Hades transforms into a captivating yet forbidden love between a goddess of spring and the lord of the dead.
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- Forbidden Love: “love for the God of the Dead grows—a love that is both captivating and forbidden” source
- Greek Mythology: “reimagining of the Hades and Persephone Greek myth” source
- Hidden Identity: “she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist” source
- Captive Romance: “Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever” source
- Morally Gray: “Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible” source
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