She came for glory. He came for her.
Esmeralda ‘Smera’ has spent her whole life in the shadow of a legend. Daughter of FGI’s most infamous Darling winner, she is eighteen, untested, and starving for an Alpha mission of her own—the kind that etches a name into the Hall of Fame. What she is not starving for is Spiro: six-foot-six of academy menace and coiled violence, the man who has hunted her through every drill for five relentless months. He is too old, too well-protected, and far too certain she will break. No one can say why Dom has not thrown him out.
No one can say what he really is.
Then the golden letter comes.
The world of Panos is tearing itself apart. Athens and Sparta are at each other’s throats, and the imbalance is poisoning everything it touches. Smera is dropped into the heart of it as a princess of Athens and a secret huntress of Artemis—stepsister to Eleos, the out-of-control demigod prince she is assigned to win.
One problem: Spiro is already there, wearing Sparta like a second skin, watching her as if the mission were never hers to begin with. Another problem: she needs a love match with her real target, or the game is over. Obsession is not love. And Spiro has never played fair.
The Olympic Games are no celebration. They are blood sport under the eyes of the gods, a fight for the golden arrow that can kill a deity. Artemis will slay her for wanting the wrong man. Zeus is watching. War is coming. And something far older than either kingdom has already chosen Smera as its vessel.
On Olympus, legends do not rise. They burn.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Esmeralda ‘Smera’ has spent her whole life in the shadow of a legend. Daughter of FGI’s most infamous Darling winner, she is eighteen, untested, and starving for an Alpha mission of her own—the kind that etches a name into the Hall of Fame. What she is not starving for is Spiro: six-foot-six of academy menace and coiled violence, the man who has hunted her through every drill for five relentless months. He is too old, too well-protected, and far too certain she will break. No one can say why Dom has not thrown him out.
No one can say what he really is.
Then the golden letter comes.
The world of Panos is tearing itself apart. Athens and Sparta are at each other’s throats, and the imbalance is poisoning everything it touches. Smera is dropped into the heart of it as a princess of Athens and a secret huntress of Artemis—stepsister to Eleos, the out-of-control demigod prince she is assigned to win.
One problem: Spiro is already there, wearing Sparta like a second skin, watching her as if the mission were never hers to begin with. Another problem: she needs a love match with her real target, or the game is over. Obsession is not love. And Spiro has never played fair.
The Olympic Games are no celebration. They are blood sport under the eyes of the gods, a fight for the golden arrow that can kill a deity. Artemis will slay her for wanting the wrong man. Zeus is watching. War is coming. And something far older than either kingdom has already chosen Smera as its vessel.
On Olympus, legends do not rise. They burn.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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