num_pages: 379
description: Persephone is the Goddess of Spring by title only. The truth is since she was a little girl flowers have shriveled at her touch. After moving to New Athens she hopes to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist.Hades God of the Dead has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible.After a chance encounter with Hades Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead and the terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever.The bet does more than expose Persephones failure as a goddess however. As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom love for the God of the Dead growsand its forbidden.
language: English
title: A Touch of Darkness
publisher: Scarlett St. Clair