Urban Fantasy Romance
Sable Marlowe
Where gods walk among us and love rewrites mythology
Gods Among Us - Season One follows a world where ancient deities never left—they adapted, walking among mortals in modern flesh while playing games that span millennia. Sable Marlowe writes urban fantasy romance structured like prestige television, where each book is an episode in a larger arc, where gods scheme and mortals become pawns in wars they can barely comprehend. The Kronos Arc delivers five interconnected stories of power, prophecy, and passion, featuring heroines who don't just survive divine attention—they demand it. These aren't retellings of old myths. They're the continuation of stories the gods never wanted told.
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Gods Among Us: The Kronos Arc
The Death Contract: Gods Among Us - The Kronos Arc Book One
She signed a contract with Death. He's here to collect. When mythology scholar Lyra Vance stumbles upon an ancient artifact that shouldn't exist, she accidentally binds herself to Thanatos—the primordial god of death who's been waiting millennia for someone foolish enough to invoke his name. The contract is simple: serve as his mortal anchor in a war between gods, or watch everyone she loves become collateral damage in divine schemes. But Thanatos isn't the cold reaper she expected. He's devastatingly beautiful, infuriatingly arrogant, and hiding secrets that could unravel everything she thought she knew about mythology. As ancient powers converge on the modern world, Lyra discovers she's not just a pawn in the gods' game—she might be the only piece that matters. The Kronos Arc begins with a bargain sealed in shadow and a love that could either save the world or doom it.
The Hunter's Vow: Gods Among Us - The Kronos Arc Book Two
Artemis has hunted monsters for millennia. She never expected to become one. When the goddess of the hunt discovers that someone is systematically murdering her sworn maidens, she breaks her oldest oath to find the killer—accepting help from a mortal man whose presence makes her feel things a virgin goddess shouldn't feel. Marcus Chen was supposed to be a simple informant, a detective with connections to the supernatural underground. Instead, he becomes her partner, her confidant, and the one complication Artemis never planned for. As bodies pile up and evidence points to a conspiracy that reaches Mount Olympus itself, Artemis must choose between the cold perfection of godhood and the messy, burning reality of a love that could cost her everything. The hunt has become personal. And the goddess who swore to need no one might just need him most of all.
The War Within: Gods Among Us - The Kronos Arc Book Three
She carries a goddess inside her. The goddess is losing patience. Rina Vasquez was a normal college student until Athena chose her as a host—and now she's a battleground for a war between divine wisdom and mortal will. The goddess of strategy wants to use Rina's body to fight the rising threat of Kronos. Rina just wants her life back. But when Ares, god of war, arrives with a proposition that could free her from Athena's control, Rina discovers that the brutish god of battle isn't what the myths describe. He's scarred, haunted, and possibly the only one who understands what it means to be a weapon instead of a person. As the Titan's forces gather strength, Rina must decide: fight Athena's control and risk losing the war, or surrender her identity to a goddess who's already taken everything else. Some battles can only be won from within.
The Queen Returns: Gods Among Us - The Kronos Arc Book Four
Persephone spent millennia as a trophy. Now she's done playing nice. The Queen of the Underworld has returned to the mortal world for the first time in centuries—not as Hades' wife, but as a power in her own right. The Kronos War demands her particular talents: she alone can walk between death and life, can command the souls of the fallen, can turn winter itself into a weapon. But her return attracts more than divine attention. Damon Korinth, a mortal whose family has served the Underworld for generations, is assigned as her guide to the modern world. He's irreverent, dangerously attractive, and the first person in millennia to see Persephone instead of the queen or the victim. As Kronos's forces close in and her estranged husband demands her return, Persephone faces an impossible choice: reclaim her throne in the Underworld, or build something new with a mortal who makes her feel alive for the first time in eons.
The Last Light: Gods Among Us - The Kronos Arc Book Five
All stories end. This one ends with the fall of Olympus—or its salvation. The Kronos Arc reaches its explosive conclusion as the Titan King breaks free from Tartarus, bringing with him an army of forgotten gods and monsters who hunger for revenge against the Olympians who imprisoned them. Every alliance forged in the previous books will be tested. Every sacrifice will be demanded. And at the center of it all stands Apollo—the god of light, prophecy, and truth—facing a future he's foreseen but cannot prevent: his own death, and the fall of everything he loves. Elena Valdez is the mortal seer who shares his prophetic gift, the woman he was forbidden to love and loved anyway. Together, they hold the last thread of hope for a world about to be consumed by divine war. Some prophecies are written in light. This one is written in blood. The Kronos Arc ends here—in fire, in sacrifice, in a love that refuses to die even when gods do.