Cruel Seduction

Cruel Seduction is the fifth novel in Katee Robert's Dark Olympus series, a contemporary romantic retelling of Greek mythology set in a modern city ruled by its gods, published by Sourcebooks Casablanca in August 2023.

Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her hands dirty, and marrying Olympus's new Hephaestus — a man the city fears — is just another move on the board. Her plan to unsettle him by seducing his closest friend, Pandora, collides with Hephaestus's own game, and the enemies-to-lovers marriage of convenience quickly blurs into something neither of them can control. Told across alternating points of view, the book follows Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Pandora and Adonis as loyalty, jealousy and old wounds tangle into a why-choose polyamorous romance set against Olympus's mounting political unrest.