The largest bats in the mortal world had nothing on the leather-winged black beasts that called the stretches of tunnels and the caverns home. He kept a wary eye on the shadows as things moved in them, chittering to each other, wanting to avoid another encounter with some of the local wildlife. The tunnel opened out into a cavern with a jagged ceiling only thirty feet above him that dipped lower in places, great pillars of rock joining it to the uneven ground. He had tried so many times and in all the ways he could think of to get a fix on her location, but no matter what he did, he couldn’t feel her. If she was dead, lingering in the place between worlds where he ruled, he should be able to feel her as he could others who moved through the veil. Thanatos pondered that, for what he was sure was the millionth time, as the path levelled out and the tunnel thankfully widened. Now, they had entrusted him with her rescue, and he would do all in his power to bring her back to them.Īs god of death, it was his duty to reap the souls of the dying when their allotted time in this world ended, only he had never been summoned to separate Calindria’s soul from her body, as he should have been, and her soul had never passed on to Hades. His king and queen had believed her soul lost forever when it hadn’t passed through the veil to reach Hades for judgement. Now that they knew Calindria’s soul had form, the gentle goddess needed her daughter back, a child she had mourned for almost six centuries.Ī girl who had been ruthlessly murdered in front of her twin, Calistos. It was the toll he could see those days were taking on his god-queen, Persephone. It wasn’t only the thought of pleasing his god-king that had him scouring uncharted lands day after day without a break though, refusing to admit defeat. He was beginning to doubt those memories, but every meeting he had with Hades and his sons had him coming away with a renewed sense of determination to complete the mission Hades had entrusted him with and find Calindria. Thanatos raked his free hand through his damp onyx hair and exhaled hard. With only a description of what Hades’s oldest son had seen in the memories of another to go on. Thanatos had charted realm after realm at the very edges of the Underworld, places beyond the sight of his god-king, seeking the one where Hades’s only daughter was being held. Fitting his seven-foot-two frame into small spaces was difficult enough at the best of times, but this was beginning to move past difficult into impossible territory.įour years of searching and he had nothing to show for it, and his god-king, Hades, was growing impatient. He hoped to the gods it opened out again soon and didn’t get any narrower. He huffed and gripped the wall, fingers tight in the holds he found as he carefully navigated the steep slope. He probably should have turned back the moment the tunnel had started to narrow, picking another route to explore and chart in his mind.īehind him, something chittered, as if mocking him. Maybe continuing along this path had been a mistake. He ducked lower, almost on his backside, and hunched forwards, easing his wings past the obstruction. He grimaced, lips pulling taut as the tops of his black wings knocked against the rough ceiling and caught on the protrusion of rock. Thanatos ducked beneath a dip in the roof of the tunnel, bracing his hand against the onyx rock as he worked his way downwards, watching his footing. In a realm that turns memories against them and where anything can be an illusion, can Calindria and Thanatos learn to trust each other enough to work together to escape the hellish domain, or will the darkest moments of their past prove too powerful to overcome? But the Fates have other plans, placing a distractingly gorgeous god of death in her path-a warrior who is determined to convince her that what she believed is the truth is in fact a lie. Armed with only a description of the location of her prison seen in a vision by her oldest brother, Thanatos has spent four years hunting for her, determined to complete his task and save her.īut when he locates Calindria, she’s not the delicate little girl he remembers-she’s a fierce, bewitching and beautiful warrioress who stirs unwanted feelings in his black heart and she’s on a mission of her own.Ĭalindria, daughter of Hades, has a mission: escape her prison, hunt down the ones who murdered her twin brother, and then make her family pay for abandoning her. Murdered six centuries ago and her soul captured before it could pass on, she now falls under Thanatos’s domain. Thanatos, god of death, has a mission: scour the unknown realms of the Underworld and retrieve the only daughter of his god-king, Hades. Book 8.0 in the Guardians of Hades series
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