![]() When Persephone returns to Hades, Demeter grieves and makes the world barren with winter, but when she returns each spring Demeter makes the earth blossom with her joy. Hermes persuades Hades that Persephone should be allowed to return to her mother for six months of the year, and then to return to Hades and the underworld for the other six. Persephone would stay with Hades for a third of the year and with Demeter for the other two thirds. Persephone is aware she must eat no food and intends only to drink the juice.but she swallows some of the pips. Hermes arrives in the underworld where Hades offers Persephone a pomegranate to eat. Zeus sends Hermes to bring Persephone back - and he must hurry, because if Persephone has eaten any food in the underworld she will have to stay there forever. When Demeter finds out what has happened she is inconsolable she curses the Earth and the plants begin to wither and die. The novel follows young Persephone, the Goddess of Spring, as she poses as a mortal and becomes entangled with Hades, the God of the Underworld. Hades is entranced and takes Persephone down to his underground kingdom to become his bride. A Touch of Darkness is the first novel in the Hades X Persephone Saga written by Scarlett St. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hermes relates how one day she is out picking flowers when Hades, god of the underworld, comes to the upper world and sees her. Persephone is the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the Earth and of the harvest. Hermes - who has winged boots and a winged helmet - then files down to the Earth, where he watches offerings being made to the goddess Demeter, and that becomes the springboard for his first story. Hermes begins with an introduction to himself and some of the other gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece - Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo - and their home on Mount Olympus. ![]()
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