Dark Olympus · Book 10
Tender Cruelty
- Published
- 2 December 2025
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9781728284781
- Type
- novel
About this book
Tender Cruelty sits between Sweet Obsession and Shattered Gods in Dark Olympus's publication order, arriving in December 2025 as the ninth entry. Like its predecessors, it pairs a new couple from Greek myth against the widening backdrop of the Thirteen's politics.
Its place in Dark Olympus
Tender Cruelty is book 10 in the Dark Olympus series. It follows Sweet Obsession. It is followed by Shattered Gods. See the full Dark Olympus reading order.
Dark Olympus drops the Greek pantheon into Olympus, a corrupt modern city-state run by thirteen ruling families who hide behind godly titles — Zeus, Hades, Aphrodite, Ares — while they carve up power, territory and each other. Each book pairs a named couple pulled straight from myth (Hades and Persephone, Eros and Psyche, Achilles and Patroclus, Hera and Zeus) and drops them into a self-contained arranged-marriage-meets-political-thriller plot: fake relationships that turn real, marriages of convenience that…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781728284781
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781464228339