
The Ballad of Ashes and Spring: A Hades and Persephone Retelling will publish on March 20, 2026. Pre-orders open NOW!
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She is the bridge between bloom and ruin.
Dr. Persephone Kore is brilliant, stubborn, and utterly devoted to her work. As her mother Demeter’s caged prodigy, she has to be. Her bioengineering research could feed nations or be weaponized by them. Tension flares to war, shattering everything she knows. Persephone is kidnapped by her own guards and thrust into a hidden facility where secrets lurk under the strict rules, power is fragile, and every choice carries the weight of life and death.
The vast Underground is built to endure an apocalypse, but it comes at a cost: strict rules over every aspect of life, inflexible classes, and bargains she can’t begin to understand. Persephone’s arrival disrupts the order, stirring rivalries, igniting passions, and altering the delicate balance of power and control.
The betrayal from her guards blooms into more as her crush turns out to be more than he seems. Here, at the end of the world, balancing between duty and desire, Persephone must determine how to create her own life, her own freedom, and her happiness. Is she a pawn in someone else’s game, or a queen in her own right?
The Ballad of Ashes and Spring is a sweeping tale of resilience, betrayal, intrigue, and forbidden attraction. It reimagines the myth of Hades and Persephone, asking the reader if Hades stole Demeter’s bright flower or if she descended to seek solitude and her lover’s touch. It is hope against the ruins of war and a single spark of defiance can alter the fate of an entire world.
For readers who crave slow-burn intensity, high-stakes survival, and the allure of enemies-to-lovers transformed into something fierce and unforgettable. When ashes give way to spring, nothing remains unchanged.
| If you love | And you like | And you enjoyed |
| Intimate & Tense | Claustrophobic settings, physical closeness, slow emotional thaw | Hades x Persephone (Lore Olympus meets The Expanse) |
| Romantic Tragedy | Love born from captivity and crisis | Beauty and the Beast or Hadestown |
| A Heroine Rising | Persephone’s evolution from pawn to queen | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Red Rising |
| Lush & Dangerous | Vines, thorns, blood, and bioluminescent imagery | Crimson Peak meets Annihilation |




AVAILABLE NOW, Pantheon 3: Return of Apollo!
Pantheon 3. The mission continues.
KR Paul’s Pantheon 3: Return of Apollo continues the advanced military tactics on high-stakes missions around the globe with the now exposed group of American military teleportation operators known to the world as the Pantheon. After being exposed during the Battle of DC, the team of individuals with extraordinary abilities is now navigating a world of espionage, power struggles, and personal losses while their faces are known by every American. The third book in the series follows Valerie “Athena” Hall, the leader of the Pantheon, as she grapples with her new leadership challenges, managing two now public facing companies, shifting alliances, and the ever-present threat of the Russian extremist group, Svoboda.
Apollo, the former ally of Miller Thompson, walks straight through the front doors of the Limitless Logistics headquarters, sewing chaos and confusion from the very first chapter. After proving he is on their side, or at least, not against them he is able to provide valuable intelligence about Svoboda’s next move. Val and her team must decide whether to trust him, accepting the risk he presents, while facing increasing instability within Russia and its oligarchy, where power vacuums threaten global security.
Like Pantheon and Pantheon 2: Ares & Athena, Pantheon 3: Return of Apollo continues KR Paul’s fine balance of heart pounding action and deeply developed characters who’s personal lives and choices expose an arc of loss, betrayal, and redemption. This plays against the lingering internal tensions within the Pantheon, now split into two companies, threaten their unity, especially as personal relationships intertwine with their missions.
With its blend of military strategy, political intrigue, deep character exploration, magic, and mayhem, Return of Apollo delivers a gripping and emotionally charged continuation of the Pantheon series as it battles for the very soul of the Pantheon.

KR Paul’s debut novel, Pantheon, now in its second edition!
The Pantheon. When it absolutely, positively, has to be right now.
A casual date turns into a horrific attack that leads US Air Force Captain Valerie Hall to discover she has the power of teleportation. Her military career takes a sudden kinetic turn—she isn’t the only one with Jump skills. Val is drawn into a world where teleportation meets advanced military tactics on high-stakes missions around the globe with the ultra-secret group of American military teleportation operators known to few as the Pantheon.
She learns to adapt her new-found skill to transition from administrative to a full-dress special operator—and the Pantheon must form an uneasy alliance with a band of Russian teleportation experts in order to take down a larger enemy that threatens both nations.
“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” ― Leon Trotsky

The thrilling sequel novel, Pantheon 2: Area & Athena, now in its second edition!
Staff Sergeant Murphy Hawkins, USMC, discovers he can teleport himself and others when a routine patrol goes sideways. He saves his team, but his special skills force him into the world of unconventional logistics and Special Operations. Murphy joins the Limitless Logistics team, known to some as the “Pantheon.” Their mission is a strange blend of logistics and combat, but far less combat than he would like.
Valerie Hall, recently promoted to the second in command of Limitless Logistics, now has a hot headed, ultra-macho, CrossFit loving Marine to train and they do not get along. She has to ensure he receives the training he needs to survive working with their Spec Ops mission partners while overcoming the administrative and bureaucratic nightmare of running a covert logistics team.
What looks like a terror attack on US soil detonates into chaos across the US—and the entire Pantheon must halt a second attack.
The Tartan Line
Seasonal Planners