A modern retelling of the Hades and Persephone myth... or is it?
She was told not to go to Earth, but she did anyway.
And finally, he has found her.
Priya has spent her life in a long-term relationship with the halfgod son of Apollo, navigating the phases of her bipolar emotions, and dreaming of preventing World War 3 alongside her mother. Between finishing a PhD in Political Psychology, preparing for a life-changing move, and the pain of a fresh breakup, she barely has time to survive her own mind—let alone the strange dreams that haunt her every night. Priya dreams of black marble halls, silver oceans, and a raven-haired man who looks at her like he’s mourning something he can never have again.
Then she meets Hayes during her Saturn Return.
Quiet. Brilliant. Beautiful in a way that feels almost unnatural. He appears in her Power Psychology class without a phone, without a past, and with an intensity that unsettles everyone around him. Especially her. The closer Priya gets to him, the more her reality begins to fracture. Gods walk among mortals. Memories bleed through dreams. The smell of gardenia lingers sweetly. And the terrifying truth lurking beneath her human skin—accompanied by the weight of her traumatic past—is beginning to awaken.
As ancient forces gather and war brews between divine powers capable of destroying the world itself, Priya is pulled toward a fate written long before she was born—a fate tied to the Underworld, to prophecy, and to a love so catastrophic it is meant to alter the balance between gods and men as we know it.
This is the journey of soul fracturing, and the retrieval required to get it back. They were always evolving toward each other.
A DESTINY SHE CANNOT ESCAPE BEGINS COLLAPSING ONTO ITSELF
A modern retelling of the Hades and Persephone myth... or is it?
She was told not to go to Earth, but she did anyway.
And finally, he has found her.
Priya has spent her life in a long-term relationship with the halfgod son of Apollo, navigating the phases of her bipolar emotions, and dreaming of preventing World War 3 alongside her mother. Between finishing a PhD in Political Psychology, preparing for a life-changing move, and the pain of a fresh breakup, she barely has time to survive her own mind—let alone the strange dreams that haunt her every night. Priya dreams of black marble halls, silver oceans, and a raven-haired man who looks at her like he’s mourning something he can never have again.
Then she meets Hayes during her Saturn Return.
Quiet. Brilliant. Beautiful in a way that feels almost unnatural. He appears in her Power Psychology class without a phone, without a past, and with an intensity that unsettles everyone around him. Especially her. The closer Priya gets to him, the more her reality begins to fracture. Gods walk among mortals. Memories bleed through dreams. The smell of gardenia lingers sweetly. And the terrifying truth lurking beneath her human skin—accompanied by the weight of her traumatic past—is beginning to awaken.
As ancient forces gather and war brews between divine powers capable of destroying the world itself, Priya is pulled toward a fate written long before she was born—a fate tied to the Underworld, to prophecy, and to a love so catastrophic it is meant to alter the balance between gods and men as we know it.
This is the journey of soul fracturing, and the retrieval required to get it back. They were always evolving toward each other.
A DESTINY SHE CANNOT ESCAPE BEGINS COLLAPSING ONTO ITSELF