The gods love to toy with mortals. And every hundred years, they let them. She has never been favored by the gods, living as a cursed office clerk for the Order of Thieves in San Francisco, Zeus' patron city. Until the night she tangles with Hades, who has entered the Crucible for the first time: the deadly contest the gods hold to determine a new ruler of Olympus. Hades chooses her as his champion. A sarcastic nobody with a curse. Hades is playing by his own rules, and Death will win at any cost.