A Game of Fate

Hades rules the Underworld with a hard hand. He runs luxurious night clubs in the mortal world, and the bargains he offers are ones no one can afford to take. He is used to being obeyed, so the news that the Fates have chosen his future wife and Queen catches him unprepared.

The woman they have picked is Persephone, Goddess of Spring. She is also a journalism student with ambitions of her own, and she is set on exposing Hades as cruel and ruthless. She is drawn to him all the same. She defies him at every turn, and the attraction between them keeps growing.

Hades takes on a task he has never faced: proving that the woman fated to be his bride has judged him wrongly. Other forces want the two kept apart. The stakes rise from a private contest of wills into a fight against Fate itself.

This modern retelling of the Greek myth has gods who run clubs and attend universities. It is a romance built on friction: a proud, controlling god, a stubborn heroine, and a bond neither of them is allowed to choose freely. Expect a charged, forbidden-love dynamic from the start.