The gods want her dead … Hades will bury them.
You’d think I’d have learned by now:
Don’t mouth off to deities.
Don’t fall for the King of the Underworld.
And definitely don’t get dragged into a divine death match where I’m the cursed mortal prize.
But here I am―trapped in Tartarus, humanity’s 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, I’ll 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 won’t just suffer―it'll beg for the end.
Why You Should Read This Book
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Trigger Warnings
The Things Gods Break
“I guess I just love getting shocked and drowned over and over. Who knew I had that kink?”
“When you find yourself questioning anything in there, especially what you have to do, hold on to this. It will feel the same no matter what is happening. It will ground you to reality. And when you get out, I’ll put the pieces back together.”
“Tell 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.”
“Your penance is to let go of your guilt, knowing that if there had been any other way, you would have found it.”
“The only way to open Tartarus, to escape, is for someone who is not a Titan to unseal all seven.”
“I promise I’m more trouble than even you imagine.”
“I can’t get us out of this place on my own. Not without help. If you need to freak out, then take a moment and freak the fuck out. But you only get a moment.”
“It’s like everything just…fits. Even after eternity together.”
“Some fates are bound to a specific event or action. Maybe that’s you. Boone has made many things here different. Maybe the two of you together is the reason you get out.”
“I know you, Hades. You can’t burn down the world, because you love me, and that would hurt me. You would never hurt me. Not if you could help it. That’s why you hate what you’re doing to…her…me…for the Crucible.”
“This place is a mind fuck, and that might be the most dangerous part of it.”
“You know, I always imagined doing those things—the sea lions, the ice cream at the wharf—with my father. I never in a million years would have imagined that it would eventually be with you.”
“A father should always be the one who sacrifices for his child.”
“I am telling you that the version of me standing before you is the future of the girl in your bed right now. I’m 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, she’ll live through the games, and we will both be exactly where we need to be when they’re over.”
“We must bind her powers. She can’t be allowed to finish what your father wanted to do to Hades.”
“You’ve seen the truth. You’ve seen what they want to do to us. They will end us if we don’t stop them. End the mortals, too.”
“Break my trust, even once, and I’ll throw you down here and forget where I put the key or that you even exist.”
“If it’s a fight you want, brother, then you’ve got it.”
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