Picking Pomegranates
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Spring Lawrence is a college history student writing a thesis on Greece. Mythology specifically. Curious about her Greek roots, she ventures through the trunk her deceased grandmother left her when she died. What she finds is a gold encrusted pomegranate that warms at her touch. Two seconds later, a very hot and very naked dark haired man appears in her living room floor. Claiming to be the mystic Hades, he swears she is his lost wife, Persephone. Of course she doesn't believe him. He offers her an deal. In exchange for her returning with him to the Underworld for six months, he will help her with her thesis.
What Spring doesn't realize is that Hades has every intention of awakening the old goddess that lies dormant inside of her. All he has to get her to do is eat the gold encrusted pomegranate.
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