The Strings of Death
  • Reads 270
  • Votes 71
  • Parts 4
  • Time 48m
  • Reads 270
  • Votes 71
  • Parts 4
  • Time 48m
Ongoing, First published Aug 09, 2021
April died in a car accident. Now she's Death.

- ☠︎ -

When April Gryna was four years old she made a deal with Death to save her dying, sick sister's life. Fourteen years later she thinks it was an elaborate dream, but the nightmare is coming back to haunt her in the form of a car accident on her eighteenth birthday. It turns out this was the agreement; in order for her sister's life to be spared, April must become the new death - the New God of the Underworld and force of nature.

But April is sure she isn't right for the job - the shy, peacekeeping young woman can't bear the thought of submitting and overviewing death, never mind the strange prejudice because April is the first woman Goddess of Death. Now on a quest to find Xothnto Mortem - the real God of Death that had gone missing five hundred thousand years ago, April's time is running out. Something is hunting her - something that doesn't want her as Queen of the Underworld anymore than she and will stop at nothing to kill her soul. 

Sometimes to live, you have to risk it all.
All Rights Reserved
Sign up to add The Strings of Death to your library and receive updates
or
#888identity
Content Guidelines
You may also like
You may also like
Slide 1 of 10
Little Saint Bride [Death and the Maiden, #1] cover
Hades cover
TUW 8: Death in the Empire cover
Her Angels *Under Editing* cover
THE DEATH LORD'S QUEEN cover
Son of Hades  cover
Afterlife: Oblivion #Wattys2024 cover
The Prophecy: Withering Roots cover
Hades |Lesbian Version| cover
Hades and Persephone {UNDER MAJOR EDITING} cover

Little Saint Bride [Death and the Maiden, #1]

44 parts Complete

~ retelling of Hades and Persephone ~ EVERY TEN YEARS, THE GOD OF DEATH TAKES A BRIDE. In the Kingdom of Minoa, a sacrifice of a virgin girl is given to the God of Death to try and appease the never-ending winter. She's accompanied by a male sacrifice, intended to be her guardian so that she can reach the Underworld safely. THIS TIME, SHE'S NOT A SACRIFICE. SHE'S A RECKONING. When Nerissa, a bold and willful young woman, volunteers to be the bride, she forfeits her human life. Along with her less-than-capable guard, Mercer, they make their way to the palace of the Underworld to meet her husband: the King of the Underworld, and Death himself. BUT AN ANCIENT CURSE IS BINDING THE KINGDOM... Death's bitter foe has cursed him, so that he spends his days awaiting the return of his love, Persephone, who will bring back Spring. One night with Death, and Nerissa will be granted half his power...and the ability to find her brother's killer. ...SHE HAS ONE MONTH TO OUTSMART DEATH. Despite their increasing attraction to one another, her husband insists on keeping her in the dark. Nerissa must use all of her guts and guile to do the one thing he's not used to: people outsmarting him. DEATH IS ABOUT TO HAVE THE (most problematic) TIME OF HIS LIFE.