A Touch Of Ruin
Persephone and Hades are no longer a secret. Their very public romance has thrilled the mortal world and enraged the divine one, and it threatens to expose the truth Persephone has guarded her whole life: that the Goddess of Spring has been living unnoticed among humans. As gossip and scrutiny close in, she must decide how much of herself she is willing to surrender to be with the God of the Dead.
Then tragedy strikes close to home, and grief drives Persephone toward a desperate, forbidden bargain—one that tests the limits of what even a god should do to undo loss. As she confronts a colder, more ruthless side of Hades and reckons with the weight of his long past, she is forced to ask whether love is enough to make her his queen, or whether some prices are too high to pay.
The second novel in Scarlett St. Clair's Hades x Persephone Saga, A Touch of Ruin deepens the darkness of the romance, trading the first book's slow-burn tension for grief, jealousy, and the hard bargains that bind gods together.
Goddess of Spring navigating a public romance, divine scrutiny, and profound loss.
God of the Dead, whose past and ruthlessness are laid bare as Persephone grieves.
Persephone's mother, still bent on controlling her daughter's fate.
The god who entangles Persephone in a coercive bargain of his own.