Shattered and Returned by Meg Xuemei X

For ninety-nine lifetimes, the gods have hunted me for sport.
Every woman with my face dies before twenty.
I’m a ghost in my own bloodline—a redheaded corpse waiting to happen.
Now I have one month until my birthday.

Hades built Reaper Academy to keep me alive.
He walks these halls as Ravencrux—the lethally beautiful professor forbidden to reveal himself, forbidden to touch me, forbidden to break the rules keeping us apart.

They warned me he’d ruin me.
His beauty’s a weapon. His hands are cruel.
But when he touches me, it doesn’t feel like destruction.
It feels like coming home.

Then he sacrifices everything for me—and I remember.
Every death. Every century of watching me fall. And the woman who tried to steal my place in his broken heart.

I am the last Persephone.
This time, if I fall, I fall for good.