A Touch of Darkness - Hades X Persephone Sarah Rees Brennan asking what we sacrifice in

asking what we sacrifice in our search for truth and justice

Though she thought she could hold her family together by love alone

total reliance on technology: it is a future that appears to be here already

but for most of us

then to Beijing and through modern China

A Touch of Darkness - Hades X Persephone Sarah Rees Brennan asking what we sacrifice inPersephone 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