The granddaughter of Father Time and daughter of the Queen of the Earth, Era has spent her whole life carefully watched, carefully kept, and carefully protected from a danger no one will name. She has learned to push past that careful boundary one daring act at a time.

So when she encounters the brooding, solitary lord of the Underworld at the edge of her family's woodland - it is Era who draws closer. Era who dares herself. Era who kisses him first.

What follows is a secret courtship woven in cello and violin duets in the summer woods, through clockwork arches that shimmer with past and future, through the slow unraveling of a man who has everything and feels nothing - until her. Hades is powerful, lonely, and quietly undone by a woman who has no fear of the dark.

But Era's family forbids the match, with reasons that reach back further than Era knows. And when she is forced to send Hades away, his grief takes the night with him - and leaves the world in endless, blinding light.

To bring him back, Era must find her way through laughter, music, and dance, to the one truth she has always known: some stories are too important to let someone else tell.

A lyrical fairy tale retelling of the myth of Persephone and Hades - warm, witty, and beautifully told - for readers who believe a woman should always get to speak for herself.

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Thank you so much for reading Apocrypha of Era. This book was, in the very beginning, a five or six page unpublished short story. When I decided to write a book I struggled with how to structure something much longer than I had written before. I took the original short story and expanded it to gain confidence and experience in writing a longer story. This is a first book. It was fun to write, and I hope you enjoyed reading it.

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