10 Books Like A Touch Of Darkness (Hades & Persephone Retellings)Ī Touch Of Darkness is a Hades and Persephone modern-day retelling. The tension between her and Hades is palpable from the first interaction. So she decides to go and investigate and unintentionally finds herself entering into a contract with Hades, where she has to bring life to the underworld. Persephone is a budding reporter, and she hears about this. So Hades is running a gambling empire in this world, and he is constantly striking deals with people and the poor. However, the gods have taken on slightly new personas, influencing society differently.
As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows-a love that is both captivating and forbidden.A Touch of Darkness is quite dark and very steamy. The bet does more than expose Persephone's failure as a goddess, however. After her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess offering him a bargain he can't resist. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch. She answered, "Yes." Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only.
"You will worship me, and I won't even have to order you." His request felt sinful and devious, and she reveled in it. She remembered the words she had whispered to him in the back of the limo after La Rose.
Clair comes a dark and enthralling reimagining of the Hades and Persephone Greek myth.
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