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Kora spent her life deep in the mountains, in a sleepy village plagued by tales of Gods and Monsters. The people there were taught the rules from a young age: don’t go outside at night, don't go into the woods alone, don’t acknowledge a black dog when you see it. And never, under any circumstances, utter the names of the Gods. They were said to have vanished hundreds of years ago, their faces long forgotten and their names held by only a select few. The legends were used as scary bedtime stories, spoken at night in hushed voices to convince unruly children to behave. Kora could not help but wonder, however; if the Gods were long dead, if they could not really hurt them… Why did they still follow those rules?
As her life is flipped upside down Kora is thrust into the Underworld by the God of the Dead himself, where she must learn to navigate a world of lies and deception. Wrath grows and blooms within her as both her power and her heritage come to light. She yearns to forge her own destiny, but The Fates have long prophesied their plans for her. With her heart and her Wrath at odds, will Kora bend to The Fates desires, or will she tear herself free from a life of death and decay?
A Psalm of Reaping is the second and final installment in The Requiem of Kora duology.
Kora’s heart is broken with the loss of her grandmother, but it does not destroy her. Her aching heart spurs her into action as she desperately aims to find her grandmother’s killer.
Her hunt takes her to Olympus, where she is surrounded by both foreign and familiar faces. Lies and truths meld into one as Kora tries to navigate a new world while she searches for answers.
Among the chaos that she finds herself in, Kora comes face to face with someone she never expected to see again– her mother.
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Hades finds it hard to breathe without Kora around. The Underworld closes in; the emptiness that was once a solace is now slowly chipping away at him.
Kora had been right– he had stayed idle far too long, and Underworld was overdue for a change. The Shades and the Gods living there deserved better.
The numbness that Kora’s absence brings leaves him feeling desperate, though, and it isn’t long before his desperation leads him to a dangerous idea: he must go to The Fates for answers.