Where Monsters Are Born: Volume III Persephone

Demeter protected her. Hades wanted her. Zeus gave permission. No one asked what she wanted Before becoming queen of the dead, Persephone was Kore: a daughter whose life had always been decided by others. When the earth splits open and Hades drags her into the Underworld, she awakens in a sunless realm where the dead remember their corpses and roots feed on bone. Demeter is willing to let the world die to recover her. Hades will cross every boundary to keep her from leaving. Trapped between two forms of love that look too much like a cage, Persephone must reclaim her body, her name, and her voice. But the Underworld is beginning to recognize her. Roots reach for her hands. Stone obeys her silence. And those who tried to possess her will soon learn to fear her. Some monsters are born in darkness. Others take root inside those who survived it.