LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN―featuring spray-painted edges with a stenciled design as well as gorgeously detailed endpapers. This breathtaking first edition is available for a limited time and while supplies last in the US and Canada only. THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Goodreads Choice Award nominee Readers Favorite Romantasy A Barnes & Noble Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of 2024 This story is my latest obsession. -- USA Today bestselling author Devney Perry The gods love to play with us mere mortals. And every hundred years we let them... I have never been favored by the gods. Far from it thanks to Zeus. Living as a cursed office clerk for the Order of Thieves I just keep my head down and hope the capricious beings who rule from Olympus won t notice me. Not an easy feat given San Francisco is Zeus patron city but I make do. I survive. Until the night I tangle with a different god. The worst god. Hades. For the first time ever the ruthless mercurial King of the Underworld has entered the Crucible--the deadly contest the gods hold to determine a new ruler to sit on the throne of Olympus. But instead of fighting their own battles the gods name mortals to compete in their stead. So why in the Underworld did Hades choose me--a sarcastic nobody with a curse on her shoulders--as his champion? And why does my heart trip every time he says I m his ? I don t know if I m a pawn bait or something else entirely to this dangerously tempting god. How can I when he has more secrets than stars in the sky? Because Hades is playing by his own rules...and Death will win at any cost.