A Touch of Darkness
Persephone, Goddess of Spring, has hidden among mortals for years in the glittering city of New Athens. Cursed so that everything she touches withers rather than blooms, she keeps her divinity secret and builds a life as a journalism student, determined to belong to the human world she loves. Then a single night at Nevernight—the exclusive club run by Hades, God of the Dead—changes everything.
Coaxed into a wager she doesn't understand, Persephone finds herself bound by a divine contract: create life in the barren Underworld, or forfeit her freedom to Hades forever. As she returns again and again to meet the terms of the bargain, the cold, calculating god proves far more complicated than his fearsome reputation, and the antagonism between them slides into something neither can control—complicated by her overbearing mother Demeter, jealous rivals, and Persephone's own fight to be seen as more than a fragile goddess.
The first book in Scarlett St. Clair's Hades x Persephone Saga, A Touch of Darkness reimagines the Greek myth as a steamy, contemporary dark romance about power, autonomy, and the terms on which two immortals learn to love.
Goddess of Spring hiding among mortals, bound by a divine wager to bring life to the Underworld.
God of the Dead running a mortal nightclub, more complicated than his fearsome reputation suggests.
Persephone's controlling mother, the Goddess of the Harvest.
A nymph in Hades' circle who resents Persephone.
A colleague at Persephone's newspaper who publishes a distorted article under her name and later blackmails her.