Thirty young adult short stories featuring lesbian heroines. (The cover for The Dark Wife was designed and illustrated by the incomparable artist, Laura Diemer~ <3)Ī dark fantasy YA with a lesbian heroine. Have a Goodreads account? You can add The Dark Wife here! The Dark Wife is a labor of love, created to be enjoyed by those it was meant to find. It is offered as a free download in the hopes that everyone who needs to read it will be able to do so. Mightier, by Sarah Diemer YA/Dark Fantasy Cleo is one of the Mightier, a mysterious group of people who can change the world with the stroke of a pen. – on Smashwords (for eReaders/reading online)Īlso available for free download to share and read online, and as a free audio book and free French translation. It won the 2012 Golden Crown Literary Award for Speculative Fiction. The Dark Wife is a YA novel, a lesbian revisionist retelling of the Persephone and Hades myth. She offers Persephone sanctuary in her land of the dead, so the young goddess may escape her Olympian destiny.īut Persephone finds more than freedom in the underworld. In truth, Hades is the goddess of the underworld, and no friend of Zeus. Zeus calls Hades “lord” of the dead as a joke. But when Persephone meets the enigmatic Hades, she experiences something new: choice. She lives on the green earth with her mother, Demeter, growing up beneath the ever-watchful eyes of the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus.
Persephone has everything a daughter of Zeus could want–except for freedom. Three thousand years ago, a god told a lie.
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