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DEDICATION

DEDICATION

To the readers of A Touch of Darkness.

Thank you for your enthusiasm and your love of Hades x Persephone.

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Contents

DEDICATION

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PART I

CHAPTER I - A TOUCH OF DOUBT

CHAPTER II - A TOUCH OF DUPLICITY

CHAPTER III - A TOUCH OF INJUSTICE

CHAPTER IV - A TOUCH OF WARNING

CHAPTER V - ROYAL TREATMENT

CHAPTER VI - LOVER’S QUARREL

CHAPTER VII - TRUCE

CHAPTER VIII - ABDUCTION

CHAPTER IX - A TOUCH OF POISON

CHAPTER X - GOD OF MUSIC

CHAPTER XI - UNRAVELING

PART II

CHAPTER XII - THE DESCENT INTO HELL

CHAPTER XIII - A TOUCH OF PANIC

CHAPTER XIV - INIQUITY

CHAPTER XV - A NETWORK OF SECRETS

CHAPTER XVI - BREAKING POINT

CHAPTER XVII - THE PLEASURE DISTRICT

CHAPTER XVIII - THE FURIES

CHAPTER XIX - GODDESS OF SPRING

CHAPTER XX - COMPETITION

CHAPTER XXI - A TOUCH OF BETRAYAL

CHAPTER XXII - THE SEVEN MUSES

CHAPTER XXIII - THE SOLSTICE CELEBRATION

PART III

CHAPTER XXIV - A TOUCH OF MADNESS

CHAPTER XXV - COLLECTING PIECES

CHAPTER XXVI - A TOUCH OF SERENITY

CHAPTER XXVII - EMPOWERMENT

CHAPTER XXVIII - A TOUCH OF RUIN

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PART I

PART I

“Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.”

― Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

CHAPTER I - A TOUCH OF DOUBT

CHAPTER I - A TOUCH OF DOUBT

Persephone walked along the bank of the river Styx. Jagged waves broke the dark surface and her skin tightened as she recalled her first visit to the Underworld. She’d attempted to traverse the wide body of water, unaware of the dead inhabiting the depths below. They’d taken her under, their fleshless fingers cutting into her skin, their wish to destroy life provoking their attack.

She thought she would drown—and then Hermes had come to her rescue.