A young girl causes a fire in her family's home, with a burst of magic blue fire, it doesn't stop, unable to control it it keeps growing and growing. she hears the screams of her mother, her father rushes towards her, worried, but he too, turns to ash, his skeleton dropping, his bones clean of any meat. she starts to cry, as her flames do not affect her in the slightest, her eyes glaze over as she watches her old life burn away, as though it never existed. Her name is Sarah, Sarah Parker. Several years pass, she's in her mid teens now, 17, she fled to the mountains ages ago, so that she wouldn't hurt anyone again. This is the story of her life.
A retelling of the Hades and Persephone myth, a story of fate, the struggle for power, and love found in the most unexpected places.
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Persephone has been raised in Olympus all her life - her mother absent, her father a cruel king, with her siblings teaching her all they know. She has seen all of what the gods and goddesses do and she is sick of it. When she learns her safety is threatened by staying in Olympus, she flees to the Underworld. There she stays until she learns that her leaving has caused the world to wilt. But leaving behind her newfound friends and Lady of the Underworld is something she will not do willingly, no matter the consequences.
[[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]
Cover designed by Regina Dionela
Content Warning: Mentions of rape and incest