A Court of Jewels and Meadows

Eliza is the daughter of the harvest goddess, bound to a sunlit valley where flowers bloom at her touch and the earth itself answers her call. Her life is safe, sheltered, and suffocating. She longs for more than endless meadows and her mother's unyielding protection. She dreams of horizons she has never seen-and of a shadowed voice that whispers her name in the night.

Gianni is the lord of the underworld, master of silence and shadow. For centuries he has ruled a kingdom without warmth, his heart as empty as the halls of obsidian he commands. Until he glimpses Eliza, laughter spilling like sunlight into a world he can never touch. Watching from the edges is no longer enough. In dreams, he begins to reach for her.

When the earth itself splits open and their worlds collide, Eliza is torn between the life she has always known and the dark, enigmatic figure who draws her deeper into the mysteries of the underworld. What begins as fear becomes fascination, and what feels like captivity may transform into choice.

But love between shadow and bloom carries a cost. Above, her mother's grief withers the fields; below, Gianni struggles to restrain his desire for the one soul who makes him feel whole. Between light and darkness, life and death, Eliza must decide not only where she belongs-but who she is meant to become.

A lush, slow-burn reimagining of the Persephone and Hades myth, this epic romance unfolds across chapters of longing, defiance, and the irresistible pull between two worlds destined to change forever.