THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Step into the Coliseum at the Spartan War Academy where monsters are made, immortality is won, and even a god can die...

Alexis Hert isn't a hero, and she certainly isn't a god. All she's ever been is a survivor.

But the Fates disagree.

When a blood test leads to her admittance at the Spartan War Academy, she'll have to do more than merely survive.

Alexis will have to claim her birthright: immortality.

But immortality is a privilege, one earned in the crucible of the academy, where the heroes are villains and classrooms battlegrounds. While gladiators Achilles and Patro, her demanding mentors, hone her into a warrior, Augustus and Kharon, her professors and the brooding heirs to the underworld, haunt her steps and her thoughts.

Because where there are gods, there are bound to be monsters, and there is more than one hunting Alexis...

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War academy

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Animal companions with a lot of ~opinions~

Prophecies

Dark romance

Why choose?

Touch her and die

Marriage law

Post-apocalyptic world

The romantasy OBSESSSION of 2024:

'This was addictive as hell'

'THAT WAS SO GOOD!!! Wow. I'll be thinking about this book for awhile. Greek mythology + a spartan war academy + a STRONG FMC?! It was perfection. I love all the twists and turns and the guessing along the way. It was such a unique Hercules story and I'm OBSESSED! I need book 2 asap.

'Actually iconic'

'LOOOOOOOOOVED IT OMG I literally tried to read it as slow as possible so I would have the book, the characters, their world... EVERYTHING for a little longer... but IT WAS HARD OK bc I really wanted to binge it in one night '

'Literally gonna live rent free in my brain'

'Perfection, favorite read this year so far'

Format Häftad Omfång 480 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harper Collins UK Utgivningsdatum 2025-07-31 ISBN 9780008744465