![]() But when he finds that Persephone can offer a little slice of the revenge he’s spent years craving, it’s all the excuse he needs to help her-for a price. Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light. With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil’s bargain with a man she once believed a myth… a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed. But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city’s dark facade. Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell… he was, quite simply, mine. Yet who, besides her husband, can she trust? With the fate of the human and Otherworldly realms hanging in the balance, Maya must unravel an ancient mystery that spans reincarnated lives to save those she loves the most…including herself. Soon, Maya suspects her life is in danger. Desire…īut Akaran has its own secrets-thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. As Amar’s wife, she finds something else entirely: Compassion. Neither roles are what she expected: As Akaran’s queen, she finds her voice and power. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen? In one obscure myth, Persephone is responsible for the creation of mankind.The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshiįate and fortune.In one story, Persephone changes Min-the, a nymph lover of Hades, into the plant we know as mint, all because the nymph bragged that she was better than Persephone.We guess she was a fan of themes of death and resurrection, considering her famous novel Frankenstein. With the help of her husband, Percy Shelby Shelley, Mary Shelley wrote a drama called Proserpine, based on Ovid's version of the myth.(Hmm, we wonder where they got that idea?) She's married to The Merovingian, a powerful lord of the underworld. ![]()
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