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How does the beloved Goddess of Spring become the feared and terrifying Queen of the Underworld? When Persephone finds the love of her life dead she pleads with the Olympians to bring him back to life. Upon their adamant refusal, Persephone takes the only other course of action available to her and calls upon the King of the Underworld. Hades agrees to help her on the condition that she marry him, and leave the mortal to live out his life without her interference. Persephone reluctantly agrees, believing the love she had shared with Pelops to be deep enough to overcome anything, even her new husband. Furious with Hades for not only forcing her hand in marriage, but taking the man she loves from her, Persephone resorts to cursing him. He inevitably learns of the slight and kidnaps her from the upper world, proceeding to throw her into the depths of the Underworld as punishment for her defiance. When the final sliver of her broken heart is crushed, it pushes her closer to the darkness her husband lives and breathes. Will Persephone be able to remain herself after this pain? Or will she succumb to the pressures of her husband and new role as the Queen of the Underworld, by becoming the most well-known torturess of the Greeks? Paris Alexandra’s debut novel is where real history and fantastical, magical worlds collide, leaving readers with the urge to flip back to the beginning the moment they reach the end.