Shattered & Returned (Dark God #1) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798989100729)

99 deaths. 1 final chance.

BLOOM doesn't know why her dreams drip with blood. Why the dead whisper her name. Or Nero Ravencrux-Forsaken Academy's lethally beautiful, morally black heart-watches her like she's both his salvation and his ruin.

But she knows this:

Students who break the rules disappear.

Every redhead who looked like her was buried before twenty.

And she has 9 days left until her birthday-the day the gods have marked for her blood.

NERO is the death god masquerading as a man. For two thousand years, he's watched Persephone be reborn-only to be slaughtered by the gods who hunt her for sport.

This time, he built Forsaken Academy to cage her from the heavens, but this Persephone is different. Wilder. Wounded. A storm of thorns and trembling hands, picking through the bones of women who wore her skin.

The Fates demand she remember. If she doesn't, he'll lose her forever.

The gods are coming. Her clock is bleeding out.

And the only thing more dangerous than his love?

Her need to survive it.

For readers who love these tropes:

• Dark academia & gothic romance
• Persephone and Hades retelling
• Forbidden teacher/student relationship
• Reincarnation & curse
• Second chance and Fated Mates
• Enemies-to-lovers
• Forced proximity and Dark Obsession
• Who hurt you?
• Murder mystery
• Villain does better
• He'll ruin you

This dark academia romance reimagines the Hades and Persephone myth with forbidden desire, deadly secrets, and an epic love that defies fate and curse.