The gods want her dead ⊠Hades will bury them.
Youâd think Iâd have learned by now:
Donât mouth off to deities.
Donât fall for the King of the Underworld.
And definitely donât get dragged into a divine death match where Iâm the cursed mortal prize.
But here I amâtrapped in Tartarus, humanityâs worst pit stop, squaring off against monsters who make the gods look merciful. Titans, twisted by centuries of rage and ruin, are sealed behind seven ancient locks.
And guess what?
I'm the key.
To escape, Iâll have to survive every horrifying trial they throw at me.
To win, I might have to become something the gods never saw coming.
Oh, and Hades?
He's about to break every rule the gods ever wrote.
Because to save me ⊠the god of death will burn the world.
But if I break free? So do the Titans.
And the world wonât just sufferâit'll beg for the end.
Why You Should Read This Book
Tropes
Trigger Warnings
The Things Gods Break
âStubborn is kind of adorable on you.â
âWhat youâre seeingâthe veils over their facesâmeans someone very powerful must have glamoured our children.â
âYouâve seen the truth. Youâve seen what they want to do to us. They will end us if we donât stop them. End the mortals, too.â
âFantasy is good, but staying in it to the detriment of your life in the real world is not.â
âOh, and stay away from the cracks of broken time. If you do or say the wrong thing to someone from the past, youâll reset time for everyone.â
âMy test is to survive the poison of evil that can affect all mortals.â
âTell Rhea that I will love her even in the ether. Tell my children that their faces are the images I held on to when I died. That I always loved them.â
âYou didnât say anything about zombies, asshole!â
âI promise Iâm more trouble than even you imagine.â
âBreak my trust, even once, and Iâll throw you down here and forget where I put the key or that you even exist.â
âI am telling you that the version of me standing before you is the future of the girl in your bed right now. Iâm telling you that if you do this, as hard as it will be for both you and for her, you will still win my heart in the end. But more importantly, sheâll live through the games, and we will both be exactly where we need to be when theyâre over.â
âI guess I just love getting shocked and drowned over and over. Who knew I had that kink?â
âThey took me straight to Zeus, almost as if they were afraid to deal with me on their ownâŠNo. Not deal with me. If I had to guess, they were afraid of him and what heâd do to them if he found out theyâd seen me and hadnât brought me to him.â
âItâs like everything justâŠfits. Even after eternity together.â
âI have the strangest sense, my star, that you are going to be trouble.â
âThe god of death and future King of the Underworld struck down by love at first sight. Aphrodite would be ecstatic if she knew.â
âYour penance is to let go of your guilt, knowing that if there had been any other way, you would have found it.â
âThis place is a mind fuck, and that might be the most dangerous part of it.â
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