The Persephanie Chronicles
by S. E. Reid
Book One
This revised and expanded edition is a re-release of the original The Persephanie Chronicles, first published in January. Persephanie Sophia Guiste is caught between two merciless forces: an unshakeable love that blinds her to her father’s demonic quest for global domination, and a new kind of love awakened by the men determined to stop him. For over a millennium, the defeated servants of the Prince of Darkness have lain entombed beneath Guiste Palace. When the Ottoman hordes destroyed Constantinople, the family fled with their wealth. In revenge, the Dark Lord cursed their bloodline, vowing one day to summon his servants: Baal, Molech, Ishtar, and all their Legion, imprisoned beneath the rubble of the fallen city. After the First World War, the ancient evil stirred. With the birth of the future Baron of Guiste Castle, Nefas Damian Guiste — the Dragon claimed his own. A ruthless genius, Nefas builds a vast dark empire and prepares the perfect vessel for Ishtar’s return: his own daughter. Gifted with extraordinary abilities and otherworldly beauty, Persephanie has been raised in secret isolation as her father’s instrument. On her sixteenth birthday in 1964, MI6 agent Cadan Reese frees her, leaving her torn between the monstrous father she worships and the man who offers salvation.
"But Persephanie will soon discover that there is more than one way to be a monster."