Title: Blood and Steel

Series: Legends of Thezmarr #1

Author: Helen Scheuerer

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

Women are forbidden to wield blades, so she has trained in secret her entire life. Now racing against the clock, she fights to secure her place in the elite guild charged with the protection of the five kingdoms.

The sparring and hazing of the new trainees border on deadly, but even more dangerous is her growing attraction to Wilder Hawthorne, her unwilling warrior chaperone.

All around them, schemes are afoot and darkness looms.

Will Althea pass the perilous initiation test and take her place as a champion of Thezmarr – or will the invading evil snatch away her dream before it starts?

Omg. I have actually found a new fave and it was DELISH! Hawthorne is my new books boyfriend!

Full disclosure – I totally read these connected series out of order because I read Iron and Embers first but, even though I sort of know what happens, I didn’t expect to fall head over heels for this book!

Orphan sisters, Thea and Wren couldn’t be more different. Wren is an Alchemist at Thezmarr and Thea longs to be a warrior… but as she is a woman, she is forbidden.

At a time in this land where monsters are getting through the Veil, Thea is found to be carrying something she shouldn’t by the Warsword, Hawthorne, and this is where the story begins!

As you can probably tell, I loved this book! I wasn’t going to read book 2 straight away. But I am. I feel a series binge coming on!

‘Then know this… If you seek power in a world of men and monsters, there is nothing more powerful than knowledge and the ability to wield it.’

‘A legend is forged with blood and steel. It takes time.’

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