Shattered & Returned (Dark God #1)

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>99 deaths. 1 final chance.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>BLOOM</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> doesn't know why her dreams drip with blood. Why the dead whisper her name. Or Nero Ravencrux-Forsaken Academy's lethally beautiful morally black heart-watches her like she's both his salvation and his ruin.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But she knows this:</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Students who break the rules disappear. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Every redhead who looked like her was buried before twenty.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>And she has 9 days left until her birthday-the day the gods have marked for her blood.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>NERO</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the death god masquerading as a man. For two thousand years he's watched Persephone be reborn-only to be slaughtered by the gods who hunt her for sport. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This time he built Forsaken Academy to cage her from the heavens but </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>this</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Persephone is different. Wilder. Wounded. A storm of thorns and trembling hands picking through the bones of women who wore her skin.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Fates demand she remember.</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If she doesn't he'll lose her forever.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The gods are coming. Her clock is bleeding out.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And the only thing more dangerous than his love?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her need to survive it.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>For readers who love these tropes: </em></strong></p><ul><li><em style=color: var(--__dChNmAmGoMXsw4B#0f1111)>Dark academia & gothic romance</em></li><li><em style=color: var(--__dChNmAmGoMXsw4B#0f1111)>Persephone and Hades retelling </em></li><li><em style=color: var(--__dChNmAmGoMXsw4B#0f1111)>Forbidden teacher/student relationship</em></li><li><em style=color: var(--__dChNmAmGoMXsw4B#0f1111)>Reincarnation & curse</em></li><li><em style=color: var(--__dChNmAmGoMXsw4B#0f1111)>Second chance and Fated Mates </em></li><li><em style=color: var(--__dChNmAmGoMXsw4B#0f1111)>Enemies-to-lovers </em></li><li><em style=color: var(--__dChNmAmGoMXsw4B#0f1111)>Forced proximity and Dark Obsession </em></li><li><em style=color: var(--__dChNmAmGoMXsw4B#0f1111)>Who hurt you? </em></li><li><em style=color: var(--__dChNmAmGoMXsw4B#0f1111)>Murder mystery</em></li><li><em style=color: var(--__dChNmAmGoMXsw4B#0f1111)>Villain does better</em></li><li><em style=color: var(--__dChNmAmGoMXsw4B#0f1111)>He'll ruin you </em></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This dark academia romance reimagines the Hades and Persephone myth with forbidden desire deadly secrets and an epic love that defies fate and curse. </span></p><p></p>