A Crown of Ash and Pomegranate: Dark MM Greek Mythology Romantasy: Hades, the God Dead (The Freely Given Book 1)

I walked into the land of the dead to buy back my dying brother. I did not plan to hand the rest of myself to the god who runs it. I'm Korax. A stonecutter. I carve the markers that go over the dead, and I learned young to give nothing away - because everything I ever loved got taken from me first. So when I bargain with the God of the Dead, I read his contract like a wall, hunting the seam. One mortal year in his house, and my brother lives. Simple. Cold. A debt. But the king of the underworld is bound by the one law of his own realm: he holds only what is freely given. He cannot take me. He can want. He can ask. He cannot take - and a god who could compel the whole turning world keeps both his terrible hands open and lets me choose. Nobody has ever waited for me to choose before. The pomegranate tree at his gate fruits on the last night of my year. When it does, I walk home free - or I stay, and pay a price no mortal was meant to pay. But the king of the gods has noticed the one realm he cannot rule by force, and he means to take it, and me, the way he takes everything. To keep the first thing I ever chose, I'll have to do the one thing I swore I never would. Inside you'll find: - A god/mortal bargain with a hidden seam and a one-year clock - A morally grey, possessive immortal forbidden to take what isn't freely given - Touch-him-and-die protectiveness from a king who'd unmake the world for one mortal - Enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, captive-in-the-underworld, age-gap slow burn - Consent written as the literal law of the realm - and the spine of the romance >For readers who crave morally grey gods, a Hades who waits to be chosen, touch-starved men who give nothing until they give everything, and a love story built on the word yes. Standalone with a guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger. Book One of The Freely Given - every book a different god, every book complete. Dark MM Greek-mythology romantasy with explicit on-page heat and intense themes. The consent between the leads is the spine of the book. Read responsibly. One year. One choice. One-click and fall.