The King of Spring

✍ Scribed by Collette Carmon

• Book ID: 111695586
• Publisher: Collette Carmon
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 568 KB
• Series: The Homeric Retellings 01
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

What if everything you knew of the gods was wrong?

Homer's story ends the way all do --in death.

**In the Land of the Dead, Homer makes his way to Hades's obsidian throne room. Upon a glassy throne, Homer finds a queen wrapped in darkness with eyes as white as mist. She asks if he wants to hear the real story of Hades and his queen. Beginning Homer's new purpose --rectifying, in death, the stories he got wrong in life. **

Hades doesn't want a consort, but Zeus is determined to bend Hades to his will. To keep the peace, Hades agrees to Zeus's demands. Telling the King of the Gods that Hades will allow the farce if Zeus allows Hades to give up after a year.

Kore moves amongst the gods and goddess of Olympus as all other "nameless" gods do. Demeter hates her only child and is content to keep Kore hidden in the shadows of society while heaping praises upon her perfect...