"If our flame must burn quickly, let it burn bright. And hot."

Coraline Harrison has never felt at home in the tiny village of Gravesend. A narrowly-avoided scandal drove her to leave for Paris four years ago and she’d have been happy to stay there for the rest of her days. However, her father’s death pulls her back to her childhood home -- to a mother who’s become distant and shrewd and a younger sister just on the cusp of womanhood. Her future prospects bleak, Cora has accepted a life of spinsterhood when she happens upon a castle shrouded in the woods and meets the mysterious stranger who calls it his home.

Hades, God of the Dead and Lord of the Underworld, has spent centuries alone. His heart dormant and his responsibilities vast, he’s resigned himself to an eternity of melancholy solitude, content with his books and his faithful hound -- and, occasionally, one pesky messenger god -- as his only company. But, when Cora stumbles upon his crumbling, hidden estate, he begins to feel things he had long since forgotten himself capable of feeling.
Excitement. Fear. Joy. Love.

What begins as a spark soon ignites into a fiery passion. Two very different souls, brought together by fate itself.

But...will duty and the looming threat from a rival god extinguish the flame?


-----A Thorn-Kindled Flame is a Greek myth retelling set in Victorian England and features moments of dark fantasy violence and some steamy scenes. It is the first book in a duology and is intended for an adult audience.