Persephone & Hades

by Kate Bellow, Ian Kerner

When your mother tells you the God of Death is one bad man, you listen. Which is just what Persephone, the Goddess of Spring, did—at least for a few hundred years—until she discovered that maybe it wasn’t exactly true. Cursed to live the life of an exile by his power-hungry siblings, Hades finds little joy in his miserable, doomed existence, until he finds himself being hunted by the very woman who would satisfy his thirst for revenge.Welcome to our Perfect Pairing series from Good in Bed, in which we couple a steamy short story with a toe-curling “pleasure-guide” that will inspire you to turn fiction into reality. At Good in Bed, we believe the brain is the biggest sex organ, and there’s nothing like a good erotic story to get the heart pounding and the blood flowing. With this hot, sexy tale based on the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades, your sex homework will include role-playing, sexual taboos, hot kisses, and more. How’s that for an adult education?But before you turn to the pleasure guide at the back of the book, you will first travel back to the mythic past and witness the meeting of an immortal couple. In this re-imagining of the classic story, Persephone and Hades are struck by an instant and all-consuming desire that leads them to risk the wrath of Mt. Olympus for one maddening, lust-filled moment. They will find that power isn’t always where it seems, and even Death itself is on the table when the Goddess of Spring becomes queen of Hades’s heart.

Genres: Fantasy

51 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 14, 2011

Reviews

[Amy Denim · Rating 4 out of 5]

This started out a little slow for being a short story, but once you get through the first five pages it gets moving. I liked this take on the classic myth. The author gives us then, but brings it forward to modern day too and gives us a peek at what's happening to these ancient gods today.
Unexpectedly, there's a bit at the end after the story is over on tips to heat up your personal love life based on the story. Weird, but not bad advice. Sort of like book club discussion questions, but for that naughty book club.