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The Ballad of Ashes and Spring: A Hades and Persephone Retelling
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Krp Publishing
Published: Mar 20 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Fate bound her to a King, but power made her a Queen. She is the bridge between bloom and ruin.
The Ballad of Ashes and Spring is a dark romantasy tale of resilience, betrayal, intrigue, and forbidden attraction. It reimagines the myth of Hades and Persephone, asking the reader if Hades stole Demeter's bright flower or if she descended to seek solitude and her lover's touch. It is hope against the ruins of war and a single spark of defiance can alter the fate of an entire world.
For readers who crave:
- Hades & Persephone
- Morally gray gods
- Enemies to lovers
- Dark romantasy
- Myth retellings
Dr. Persephone Kore is brilliant, stubborn, and utterly devoted to her work. As her mother Demeter's caged prodigy, she has to be. Her bioengineering research could feed nations or be weaponized by them. Tension flares to war, shattering everything she knows. Persephone is kidnapped by her own guards and thrust into a hidden facility where secrets lurk under the strict rules, power is fragile, and every choice carries the weight of life and death.
The vast Underground is built to endure an apocalypse, but it comes at a cost: strict rules over every aspect of life, inflexible classes, and bargains she can't begin to understand. Persephone's arrival disrupts the order, stirring rivalries, igniting passions, and altering the delicate balance of power and control.
The betrayal from her guards blooms into more as her crush turns out to be more than he seems. Here, at the end of the world, balancing between duty and desire, Persephone must determine how to create her own life, her own freedom, and her happiness. Is she a pawn in someone else's game, or a queen in her own right?
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