Blood & Steel – Helen Scheuerer

With her death foretold, Althea Zoltaire has only three years to become what she has always dreamed of being: a warrior legend.

Women are forbidden to wield blades, so Althea has trained in secret her entire life. Now racing against the clock, she fights for a place in the elite guild sworn to protect the five kingdoms—where sparring borders on deadly and failure carries a heavy cost.

Her greatest challenge may not be the trials themselves, but Wilder Hawthorne: her unwilling warrior chaperone, whose brooding presence and tortured past ignite a slow-burning tension neither of them can ignore.

As schemes unfold and darkness gathers, Althea must survive the perilous initiation and claim her destiny—or watch her dream be stolen before it begins.

Spice level: Medium
Blood & Steel is an epic romantic fantasy featuring enemies-to-lovers tension, slow-burn romance, found family, and a richly built world of magic and monsters.

Series: The Legends of Thezmarr

• Book 1: Blood & Steel
• Book 2: Vows & Ruins
• Book 3: Fate & Furies
• Book 4: Shadow & Storms

Additional standalone novels are set in the world of The Legends of Thezmarr and can be read independently.

• Slaying the Shadow Prince