A Touch of Darkness

What happens when the Goddess of Spring can't make a single flower bloom — and the God of the Underworld is the only one who makes her feel truly alive?

Persephone holds the title of Goddess of Spring, but it's nothing more than a cruel joke. Every seed withers at her touch, every petal blackens before it can unfurl. Desperate to escape the weight of her inadequacy — and her controlling mother — she flees to the glittering, modern city of New Athens, where she carves out a quiet life as a mortal journalist. She asks for nothing more than anonymity and a byline.

Then she meets Hades.

Dark, ruthless, and devastatingly beautiful, the God of the Underworld is everything Persephone has been warned to avoid. He is ancient power wrapped in a tailored suit, a man who deals in contracts, consequences, and the kind of temptation that rewrites destinies. When a reckless bet pulls her into his world — literally — Persephone finds herself bound to the one being her mother fears most.

She tells herself she despises him. He seems perfectly content to let her believe that lie.

Set in a lush, mythologically rich world where gods walk among mortals and power comes with devastating costs, *A Touch of Darkness* is a simmering, forbidden romance that proves sometimes the most dangerous thing isn't the darkness — it's wanting to stay in it.

Some bargains are worth every consequence.