NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Scandalous gossip wild parties and forbidden love—the Greek tale
of Hades and Persephone gets a romantic modern update in the gorgeously illustrated Eisner
Award-winning Lore Olympus including a brand new bonus short story! “The Underworld has a
queen!” Persephone and Hades are finally reunited when the banished goddess of spring returns
to the Underworld to claim her rightful place as queen. Now that Hades and Persephone have
defeated and imprisoned the power-hungry Kronos once more nothing can keep them apart and
years of being separated have only made their desire for each other grow. But the other
Olympians can’t help but meddle pushing the pair to make things official with a coronation—and
a wedding. Ignoring the others who try to define their relationship Hades and Persephone
choose to take things at their own pace and focus on rebuilding the Underworld. They begin by
investigating how Kronos was first able to escape and they learn the horrifying truth that he
has captured a powerful young god whose abilities help Kronos project his thoughts outside of
Tartarus—thoughts he uses to plague Hera’s every waking moment. Though Kronos’s physical form
is locked away Olympus will never be free until they can rescue the child from the furious
Titan’s grasp. To save the realms Persephone must figure out her fertility goddess powers and
embrace her role as Queen of the Underworld—even as it takes her further from her mother’s
expectations and her former place in the Mortal Realm. This edition of Smythe’s original
Eisner Award–winning webcomic Lore Olympus features a brand-new exclusive short story from
creator Rachel Smythe and brings the Greek pantheon into the modern age in a sharply perceptive
and romantic graphic novel. This volume collects episodes 207–233 of the #1 WEBTOON comic Lore
Olympus .
