𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆… 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐂 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐒, 𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘
Persephone has left the Underworld for good. Finally having had enough of the cold and the dark and being surrounded by the souls of the dead, the goddess of spring has separated from her husband in the most amiable way possible and returned to the world above for good. And though they parted ways as friends, there is no denying that Hades is a much better god and ruler with someone by his side - and without his queen, he has become even more withdrawn from his subjects and fellow gods than usual, isolating himself in his great palace and spending much of his time reflecting on how lonely his kingdom feels without someone to share his throne with.
To the other gods, the solution to Hades’ distress is clear: find him another to love, someone who is equipped to rule at his side and share his burdens. But when no minor goddess or nymph seems willing to spend their immortal existences in the Underworld’s depths, the Olympians must turn their search to the world of mortals, and who they find is one Embry Bakir. Embry, a whip-smart lawyer working their way up to becoming a partner in their firm, is the perfect choice for the gods’ purposes, despite their mortality: they are clever, compassionate, suited to rule… and just so happen to have a brother, their only remaining relation, whose life and soul hangs in the balance after an awful car accident, a delicate knife’s edge of the kind that require a personal decision from Hades about whether the soul will pass on or be allowed to remain in its body.
Persuaded by his family, Hades makes Embry an offer: he will return their brother’s soul to his body and give him one more year to live, or they can come to the Underworld with him and live there for a year and their brother can live a long, happy life. Though the god is quick to crumble and offer to simply let Embry’s brother live, not wanting to gain a lover through force for a second time, but Embry’s code of honour will not let the god walk away without payment for saving the life of their only family. And so they venture with Hades into his world down below, determined to brave their way through their agreed-upon year and, hopefully, go back to the life they had lead before.
But the longer Embry spends in the Underworld, getting to know the souls within it and the immortal beings who help to run it, the more they find themself becoming a part of it… and the more they become drawn to the very god who has brought them here in the first place. Though Hades is at first reluctant to get close to anyone again, the two of them find that they cannot stay away from each other, and through many midnight conversations among the asphodels and candlelit dinners in the Underworld’s palace, they find themselves falling into what the poets who tell tales of Hades and his family could only call love. But as the designated year speeds by and troubles with Hades’ self-worth and his family threaten what is beginning, can their blossoming love survive and prove to be a new bright spot among the Underworld’s darkness?
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