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Speculative Romance of 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards Romantasy nominee of 2024 "This story is
my latest obsession." USA Today bestselling author Devney Perry The gods love to play with
us mere mortals. And every hundred years we let them... I have never been favored by the
gods. Far from it thanks to Zeus. Living as a cursed office clerk for the Order of Thieves I
just keep my head down and hope the capricious beings who rule from Olympus won't notice me.
Not an easy feat given San Francisco is Zeus' patron city but I make do. I survive. Until the
night I tangle with a different god. The worst god. Hades. For the first time ever the
ruthless mercurial King of the Underworld has entered the Crucible - the deadly contest the
gods hold to determine a new ruler to sit on the throne of Olympus. But instead of fighting
their own battles the gods name mortals to compete in their stead. So why in the Underworld
did Hades choose me - a sarcastic nobody with a curse on her shoulders - as his champion? And
why does my heart trip every time he says I'm his? I don't know if I'm a pawn bait or
something else entirely to this dangerously tempting god. How can I when he has more secrets
than stars in the sky? Because Hades is playing by his own rules...and Death will win at any
cost.
