Between the Stars

"I know you will not listen. No one ever really listens. But I will tell you my story anyway, because we are all here--even gods--wandering through the stardust and decaying leaves, the cold marble and mountains, just trying to make sense of what it all means.
In the beginning, you should know: the world is not kind to a God of Death."

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Hades was born into the realm of gods--a glittering world of light and divinity that has never been anything but cruel to him. As he grows from a lonely child of darkness into one of the three great brothers of Olympus, he faces war, hatred, violence, and an ever-growing sense that he does not belong. When he becomes god of the dead, the dark, cold underworld seems like a reprieve--a place he finally belongs.

That is, until he goes above ground one day, glimpsing the goddess of spring, and a chance at a kind of life he thought he could never have...