Clione – illustratör

When Princess Lailah’s kingdom falls, she has one final duty: to act as a body double for her twin sister and face death at the hands of rebel leader Prince Khalifa - who just happens to be her first love. Princess Lailah’s ruse to deceive the prince by impersonating her sister works, but it turns out he has other plans for her. Seeking revenge on the princess who imprisoned and tormented him, Khalifa puts a curse on Lailah that forces her to submit to his every whim. Can she endure the grudge of a man she once loved in order to protect her sister? Or will she accept her role as a doll that lives only to serve him? For Mature Readers.

Time is running out for Lailah, and it’s all Khalifa’s fault. The curse of the Guilty Smile is fatal - when the flower upon her neck blooms in full, she will die. Terrified of losing his beloved, Khalifa searches without rest for a cure... but as each fruitless day passes, Lailah’s nightmarish fate grows ever closer.

At last, Khalifa and Lailah have confessed their feelings to one another - but in a cruel twist of fate, time has run out, and the cursed crest is complete. There is one last hope: Lailah's estranged great-aunt Monir may yet hold the key to a cure. As Khalifa and Lutf race against the clock to find her, Malaika sets her carefully calculated escape plan into motion.

In the Realm of the Gods, new goddess Persephone spends her days tending to her fields of flowers. Every new sprout comes at the cost of an old one withering and dying - which is how she meets the handsome but taciturn Hades, who visits to collect the dead.Persephone grieves for the death of her beloved plants, but Hades’s warmth and encouragement touch her heart. Persephone learns Hades is a victim of the Gods’ conspiracy, and she offers up her own body to save the Lord of the Underworld! Can their passion stand against all of Olympus?

After Eros “accidentally” shoots Hades, the god of the Underworld is irresistibly drawn to Persephone, goddess of flowers. After they share a night of incredible passion, Hades is determined to make Persephone his queen. She agrees with one condition: she must be free to tend her fields in the Divine Realm. Their love faces its first test when Zeus sets his sights on Persephone, forcing the couple to flee to the Underworld together to escape his grasp.A shocking truth awaits them - Eros’s arrow and Zeus’s obsession are all part of a larger conspiracy by the gods, one that could change the fate of Hades and the Underworld forever. What dark schemes does Zeus have in store? And as gods who have only ever known eternal life, can they solve the mystery of death?