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A month ago, Mal was ordered to close a gate between Hades’s realm and the mortal world—by killing Hades’s last surviving priestess, one of her only friends. She hesitated, and saved her friend’s life. Now the city is paying the price. Two spirits are haunting the streets of Manhattan, and one of them has a body count. Victims have been turning up all over the city, each killing more vicious than the last, and the only way to stop it is to send the spirits back where they belong—before they grow too strong for even Hades to control. If Mal can’t return them to the afterlife, she’ll pay a price of her own. When she let the spirits slip through the gate, she violated a fundamental law of the underworld: the worlds of the living and the dead must remain separate at all costs. For this betrayal of her god, only one punishment exists—she will be stripped of Hades’s Mark. And the only way to remove a god’s Mark is to destroy the bearer’s soul.
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** I no longer use Goodreads to track my reading. My subjective rating and review standards aren’t likely to be useful to other readers—how would it help anyone else to see that I rated a book 5 stars because I read it at the exact right time in my life, or 2 stars because it used a popular trope I dislike?—and I’m not comfortable with the idea of readers and even authors taking them as objective measurements, or worse, constructive criticism. I now track my reading privately, but send out monthly book recommendations through my mailing list at https://www.zoecannon.com/newsletter. My old ratings and reviews are still here, but don’t take them as anything other than personal reactions. I may not see messages and friend requests. ** Zoe Cannon may or may not be a supervillain out to conquer the world through writing. When not writing, she can be found perfecting her schemes for world domination, plotting against her archenemies, and staying up too late reading a book. Her secret lair is rumored to be located somewhere in southern New Hampshire.
