
A Touch of Ruin
Scarlett St. Clair · Hades x Persephone #2
Shares gods & immortals, forbidden love & bargain / deal. Same author, too.
Read-alikes
A Touch of Malice is gods & immortals, court intrigue & fierce heroine — spicy (4/5), first-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.
Persephone and Hades are newly engaged, but Demeter retaliates by summoning a catastrophic snowstorm that cripples New Greece, refusing to relent until her daughter abandons the match. When the divided Olympians are called to arbitrate — risking all-out war with either Demeter or Hades — Persephone must also investigate a terrorist cell targeting the gods while navigating her dual life as a mortal journalist and future Queen of the Underworld.
Share the most of what makes A Touch of Malice work.

Scarlett St. Clair · Hades x Persephone #2
Shares gods & immortals, forbidden love & bargain / deal. Same author, too.

Amanda Joy · A River of Royal Blood #1
Shares forbidden love, court intrigue & fierce heroine.

Scarlett St. Clair · Hades x Persephone #4
Shares gods & immortals & court intrigue. Same author, too.

Scarlett St. Clair · Hades x Persephone #1
Shares bargain / deal & gods & immortals. Same author, too.

Jennifer L. Armentrout · Flesh and Fire #1
Shares forbidden love & gods & immortals.

Jennifer L. Armentrout · Flesh and Fire #2
Shares forbidden love & gods & immortals.

Jennifer L. Armentrout · Blood and Ash #3
Shares gods & immortals & fierce heroine.

Grace Draven · Wraith Kings #2
Shares court intrigue & gods & immortals.

Jennifer L. Armentrout · Flesh and Fire #3
Shares gods & immortals & forbidden love.

Danielle L. Jensen · The Bridge Kingdom #3
Shares forbidden love & court intrigue.

Kerri Maniscalco · Kingdom of the Wicked #2
Shares forbidden love & court intrigue.

Sarah A. Parker · Crystal Bloom #1
Shares forbidden love & court intrigue.