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The Dark Wife

By: Sarah Diemer
Narrated by: Veronica Giguere
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Three thousand years ago, a god told a lie. Now, only a goddess can tell the truth. Persephone has everything a daughter of Zeus could want - except for freedom. She lives on the green earth with her mother, Demeter, growing up beneath the ever-watchful eyes of the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus. But when Persephone meets the enigmatic Hades, she experiences something new: choice. Zeus calls Hades "lord" of the dead as a joke. In truth, Hades is the goddess of the underworld, and no friend of Zeus. She offers Persephone sanctuary in her land of the dead, so the young goddess may escape her Olympian destiny. But Persephone finds more than freedom in the underworld. She finds love, and herself.

The Dark Wife is a YA novel, a lesbian revisionist retelling of the Persephone and Hades myth. It won the 2012 Golden Crown Literary Award for Speculative Fiction.

©2011 Sarah Diemer (P)2016 Hatching Phoenix Productions LGBTQ+ Literature & Fiction Paranormal Romance Adaptation Mythology Ancient Greece Greek Mythology
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I loved the story with Hades being a woman and not only that but a lesbian. This story was a different love story to the ones I normally listen too, and I really enjoyed it from beginning to end. This was a lovely romance between Hades and Persephone.

A Lesbian Hades what more could you ask for

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What can I say? I loved it absolutely. might just me being gay but I adored it

10/10 would gay again

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I sent out listening thinking I would not like this but to my surprise I loved it word for word I was hooked what a beautiful story open your mind and share in it's beauty

beautiful ❤️

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