The Games Gods Play - Abigail Owen

The gods love to toy with us mere mortals. And every hundred years, we let them…\n I have never been favored by the gods. Far from it, Living as a cursed office clerk for the Order of Thieves, I just keep my head down and hope the capricious beings who rule from Olympus won’t notice me. Not an easy feat, given San Francisco is Zeus’ patron city, but I make do. I survive. Until the night I tangle with a different god.\n The worst god. Hades.\n For the first time ever, the ruthless, mercurial King of the Underworld has entered the Crucible—the deadly contest the gods hold to determine a new ruler to sit on the throne of Olympus. But instead of fighting their own battles, the gods name mortals to compete in their stead.\n So why in the Underworld did Hades choose me—a s