Angie Paxton
Author
SEEDS 2nd Edition releasing 12/1/26
Reviled by her village, unloved by her mother, Persephone never expects to be accepted anywhere, let alone among a group of Olympian goddesses. Yet, that’s exactly what happens when the goddesses seek her out and reveal the truth of Persephone’s heritage: that her mother was once a goddess and Persephone is one too.
Persephone is still reeling from this when a chariot emerges from a cavern on the edge of the meadow where Persephone met the goddesses. The dark man driving it seizes her and whisks her away to his realm. There he reveals that he’s Hades, God of the Underworld.
While Persephone plots her escape, Demeter sets out to reclaim her daughter. When Zeus restores her godhood but not Persephone, Demeter wields her power ruthlessly, bringing humanity and the gods to the edge of ruin. Only Persephone can bring them back from the brink, but if she does, she’ll have to leave behind the happiness she’s finally found in the most unexpected of places and return to a mother who always made her feel she was never enough.
Angie Paxton’s modern-day interpretation of Homer’s “Hymn to Demeter” grapples with the 21st-century questions of what children owe the parents who hurt them and how much choice we have in the ways the seeds that are planted in childhood form us as adults.
Seeds is a novel that will abduct you, like Persephone, deep into its pages, taking you on a journey through the darkness and lies in search of freedom and forgiveness. A stunning debut from a talented author to watch.
- Crystal King, author of In The Garden of Monsters and Feast of Sorrow
Seeds is a story of mothers and daughters and lovers, but first and foremost, it is Persephone's hero's journey. It's the epic tale of a young woman overcoming all she's been told about herself and stepping into her power with both grace and fortitude. Once I descended into Angie Paxton's Underworld, I was loath to come up for air!
- Lauren J. A. Bear, author of Medusa’s Sisters and Mother of Rome