Did I Lie?: A Dark Romance / PNR Retelling (Hades x Persephone)
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A world-renowned psychologist with a debonair British veneer, Carrington doesn’t just study human behavior; he deconstructs it. When their paths first collide in the neon haze of Las Vegas, Clara’s attraction to Carrington is a singular lapse in judgment. A year later, it’s a life sentence.
Now, Clara is bound to him by a vow she can’t remember and a physical magnetism she can’t escape. Trapped in a marriage that is less a union and more a psychological siege, she is caught between a heart that craves his protection and a gut that screams he is a sophisticated, predatory danger.
Carrington is determined to use his clinical expertise to curate Clara’s life into his own version of perfection. But Clara is his intellectual equal. She decodes his gambits, challenges his meticulous control, and refuses to submit—except in the darkness, where his intensity seduces her into a temporary, treacherous truce.
In this explosive game of cerebral chess, Clara must find the exit before she is absorbed into Carrington’s design. But how do you outrun a man who has mapped your every move?
Author’s note to readers:
DID I LIE? is the first installment of a seven-book saga—a modern-day gothic psychological reimagining of the Hades and Persephone myth. This book features an obsessive British tycoon, an unreliable narrator struggling with undiagnosed Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and a forced marriage that spirals into a high-stakes psychological thriller. Told in first-person POV, the series explores the thin line between love and control. For fans of genre-blended romantic suspense, psychological realism, dark literary fiction, and dark romance featuring a Victorian/Gothic antihero in a contemporary setting. Reader discretion is advised.
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About the author
Astra Capone is an international bestselling author and English and Creative Writing graduate, specializing in modern gothic dark romance with a vintage style rooted in 90s psychological thrillers. Astra writes a multi-book Hades x Persephone retelling that explores the reality of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and body dysmorphia. A proud member of The Authors Guild and the Human Authored initiative, she's a Pennsylvania native who splits her time between the Bay Area, CA, and Boulder, CO. She can often be found with her husband and cats, likely rewatching The X-Files.
