Abandoned by Olympus, I Became Queen of the Underworld

Ianthe is the only biological daughter of Enyo, Goddess of War, yet her mother has always favored Eudora, the adopted girl. When Lady Cleonice proposes a marriage between Ianthe and her son Leandros, Enyo tears the laurel crown from Ianthe's head before all the gods and declares Eudora her heir instead, offering Ianthe a match with the disgraced Theon. Ianthe refuses, and Hecate speaks for her, but Enyo will not relent.

Summoned to the War Palace, Ianthe is ordered to marry Damon, a minor divine house's guard, on terms that leave her nothing of her own. When she refuses, her mother strikes her. Only Mirine, the nymph who raised her, tends her wounds. Then Hecate's messenger brings a pomegranate-shaped garnet brooch and a note from Hades, who once listened to her speak of the dead and never asked her to stop. Ianthe answers with a single word: come.

As garlands fill the palace for Eudora's engagement, Ianthe must decide what she will become when her mother's house offers her nothing.