A Hades and Persephone retelling Can anything prosper in the underworld? The first book in The ruler of the underworld series. Hades has only known darkness in his life, first as a prisoner inside his father and when freed as the ruler of the underworld. So, when he finds what he has longed for all his life in the goddess of spring he decides to take her as his wife. Forced into a marriage and a life she does not want, Persephone despises Hades for what he has done. And no matter how hard he tri