Katherine Bakers has spent the past five years haunted by a past she cannot escape. At just nineteen, she still carries the scars of that fateful night-the night she watched her older sister be brutally murdered. The memory has left her broken, turning her into a recluse, withdrawing from the world and even from herself. Sleep had become a distant luxury... until the unthinkable happens.One moment, she's struggling to put the past behind her. The next, she's waking up in the arms of a stranger. But this is no ordinary man. This is Hades, God of the Underworld-a ruler feared by gods and mortals alike.Hades is not just a god-he is power incarnate, the ruthless king of the dead, and the keeper of souls. His judgment is absolute, his heart encased in ice, untouched by mercy or love. No one has ever been able to thaw the cold depths of his soul... and time is slipping away from him.Fate has woven their paths together. A shattered girl and a god on the edge of oblivion. But when darkness calls to darkness, will she break further, or will she be the one to unravel him?A gripping, dark, and seductive retelling of Hades and Persephone, where shadows whisper secrets, and love is the most dangerous game of all.