Receiver of Many (Hades & Persephone, #1)

by Rachel Alexander

Aidoneus rode headlong for the living world and his Persephone.

Hades Aidoneus Chthonios, Polydegmon. The Unseen One. Receiver of Many. Ruler of the Other Side and Lord of the Dead…

Persephone Praxidike Chthonios. She Who Destroys the Light. Carrier of Curses. The Iron Queen of the Underworld.

His wife was a darkly magnificent creature, stepping through the ring of fire she created with him at her side. Persephone— his Queen.

I know that you love me, Persephone, because I can feel it. I can feel it whenever I’m in your presence. Even now, through your anger, when I look into your eyes— I feel it. I can feel it when I speak to you, when I hold you, when I touch you,

Nearly anything can be forgiven, if one is willing to open their heart completely.”

I have loved you and only you for forty thousand years. And I will love you and only you until the stars are shaken out of the sky.”

“My lady, if it were up to me, your hair wouldn’t be the only thing going unbound at all times.”

he silently wondered what in the name of the Fates he’d ever done to deserve her.

The more we attempt to control our destiny, the less it bends to our liking.”

You are the one who transcends and connects the worlds. You are the embodiment of balance— born at the war’s end.”

am a better man because of you, sweet one.”