NYT-bestselling author Katee Robert’s FORBIDDEN FRUIT, pitched as a contemporary retelling of the Hades-Persephone myth, in which Persephone is a society darling fleeing an arranged marriage and Hades is the reclusive king of a criminal empire who offers her a dark deal—she’ll be his for a month, and in return he’ll ensure her freedom from her mother and fiancé once and for all, to Mary Altman at Sourcebooks Casablanca, in a three-book deal, for publication in beginning summer 2021, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency (world English).