Shattered & Returned by Meg Xuemei X

99 deaths. 1 final chance.

BLOOM doesn’t know why her dreams drip with blood.
Why the dead scream her name.
Or Nero Ravencrux—Forsaken Academy’s lethally beautiful, morally black heart—watches her like she’s both his salvation and his ruin.

But she knows three things:
Students who break the rules disappear.
Every redhead who looked like her was buried before twenty.
She has nine days until her birthday—the day the gods have marked for her blood.

NERO is the death god masquerading as a man. For millennia, he’s watched Persephone be reborn, only to be slaughtered by the gods who hunt her for sport.
This time, he built Forsaken Academy to cage her from fate.

But this Persephone is different.
Wilder. Wounded. A storm of thorns and trembling hands, picking through the bones of women who wore her skin.
The Fates demand she remember.If she doesn’t, he’ll lose her forever.

The gods are coming.
Her clock is bleeding out.
And the only thing more dangerous than his love?
Her need to survive it.
And her fury when she discovers the truth.