Persephone is the goddess of spring only in title. Since she was very small, flowers wither at her touch. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead a quiet life, in the guise of a mortal journalist.

Everything changes when she sits down in a clandestine nightclub to play a card game with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. Hades, the god of the dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are known to be impossible. But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess who offers him a gamble he cannot resist.

After her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself bound by a contract with the god of the dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the underworld or lose her freedom forever. As she strives to sow the seeds of her freedom, her love for the god of Darkness grows - a love that is both enchanting and forbidden.