On his ,twenty-!secon$_d b:-\i`:rthd@%ay-, Nick is dying fro(^`,m a cursed unde% =rw)?o` /,rld ma
] rk. His late guardian? leaves him one- %?chance: offer -
a silver -) coin
?to t
_he “Queen of the Unde?rworld.”[_[ ]But 
th-e one wh]o=./ an-s.@-$wers i^#s# H ades h  ?imself, a silve r-hai*red god who seals Nick’^]s life-_ with a blac(.k we?dding ring. Every] ^!time
Hades! saves,_: h`im, ;th. eir marriag(e contra_+ct grows deeper—and Ni@/;ck becomes harde$ r t-$o$ let go/)%. When a fallen[ p^[ri %)est kidnaps;]] Nick to force Hades to $,;open =/t !^he Underwor_!=#ld Gate, Nick m`ust+ choose: escape\ t`%he /,*god who owns his he%=artbeat, or cla@;im hi`_-m as an equ+ al.