She’d created her own hell, and now that she had learned to control her fear, she knew how to create her own paradise.

Keep climbing,’ he told himself.’Cheeseburgers,’ his stomach replied.’Shut up,’ he thought.’With fries,’ his stomach complained.

A woman’s body is the gate to this life. A man’s body is the gate to the next life.

Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I’d known what was coming, I would’ve called in sick. I could’ve avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that...

Do you really need me to answer that?”A hot, sweet flush stole across my cheeks. When he was like this—open, flirty, and downright sexy—I was at my lamest. I wasn’t used to this side of...

Hazel frowned. “Why that one?””You don’t see the ghost?” Frank asked.”Ghost?” Nico asked.Okay… if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn’t see, something was definitely wrong.

This is the gate between the living and the dead”, he said. “You are still living. The others on the grounds died very long time ago.”A chill ran through me. “And you?””Me?” The corner of...

Persephone smiled. “Caleb and I play Super MArio Kart every day at one, and when he cancelled on me I knew something was up.”I looked at Caleb slowly.

Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That’s why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and...

Thank you,” Caleb said, and hugged me once more. Part of me wanted to stay in Caleb’s arms, because he’d always had this grounding effect on me. Caleb was my rational side. He was more...

In response to a tactless question he once said to me, ‘What do you expect? This lousy neighbourhood gave me the come-on. I couldn’t resist.

He was done talking. Aiden came off the wall so fast the water reacted in a frenzy of bubbling. He—we—were in a frenzy. His arms crushed me to him, his mouth demanding, saying those three...

It’s splendid how much at home we feel at Pignol’s. A tacit complicity at every moment prevails among the regulars here. A process of self-selection operates: starving crooks, thirsty whores, witless grasses working for low-grade...

Aiden was staring. So was Caleb, although he looked like he was quite used to all this…woman on display. Hell, even I was staring.She crossed the hall, her long legs parting the chiffon of her...

Can you please tell me who you people are?””Criminals. Offenders. Monsters. We’ve all been imprisoned in Tartarus for discretions committed against the gods of Olympus.”~ Hope/Daedalus, The River Styx

What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death.

And you can glance out the window for a moment, distracted by the sound of small kids playing a made-up game in a neighbor’s yard, some kind of kickball maybe, and they speak in your...

Right,” she said, “We’re going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn’t think negative.

How language is webbed in the senses. Out of sand-blazed brilliance into quirky minds such as his, into touch, taste and fragrance. He thought he’d linger just a bit longer, let the bath take total...

Please!’ That word didn’t make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice. ‘You’re already dead,’ Nico said. ‘You’re a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won’t be sharing any...

That means life itself is afairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice