Hades & Persephone Books in Order

In this series, Greek gods are not distant myths from long ago. They live in a glossy modern world called New Greece, with cities, media, nightlife, and political rivalries that feel current even when the problems are ancient. At the center is the pull between Persephone, Goddess of Spring, and Hades, God of the Underworld, a relationship Scarlett St Clair turns into a mix of taboo romance, public scandal, and divine power struggle.

Persephone begins as someone trying very hard to look ordinary. She wants a career in journalism, a life with some independence, and distance from her controlling mother. The problem is that nothing about her life is ordinary, especially once she crosses paths with Hades in A Touch of Darkness. He runs a glittering underworld of nightclubs, bargains, and impossible bets, and one deal between them changes the course of everything.

That is where the series really locks in.

What follows is not just a retelling of one myth beat by beat. The books use the Hades and Persephone legend as a starting point, then build a much wider story around family pressure, gods behaving badly, old grudges, and the question of whether love can survive power. In A Touch of Ruin and A Touch of Malice, private desire becomes public fallout. Demeter, the Olympians, and the wider world all push against the relationship, so the romance is always tied to larger consequences.

One of the fun things about this page is that it includes both sides of the story. The Persephone-led books carry the main emotional arc, while books like A Game of Fate, A Game of Retribution, and A Game of Gods show the same world through Hades's eyes and expand the politics around him. These are not simple repeats. They add new scenes, different motives, and a clearer sense of what Hades is managing behind the curtain.

The scale grows as the series goes on. What starts with attraction and a dangerous bargain becomes a story about weather turned into warfare, anti-god movements, divided Olympians, and eventually all-out conflict that threatens New Greece itself. By the time you reach A Touch of Chaos, the question is no longer just whether Hades and Persephone can be together. It is whether they can hold onto each other while the world around them falls apart.

The tone is dramatic, sexy, and very modern, but it still makes room for the strange weight of myth. You get luxury clubs, newsroom ambition, divine courts, underworld politics, and a lot of messy immortals making bad choices for reasons that sometimes feel painfully human. If you like mythology retellings with heat, momentum, and a strong sense of romantic obsession, this is the lane.