book cover of Thornblood
 

Thornblood

(2026)
(The first book in the Thornblood Saint series)
A novel by

 
 
Mara Vey was supposed to die in a ditch.

Instead, she wakes with a living thorn seed buried in her chest, a brutal new power growing through her blood, and half the district trying to drag her back in chains.

The Cathedral of Briars is no ordinary forest. It’s alive. It remembers. And it''s starting to notice her.

Hunted by debt collectors, shrine zealots, twisted predators, and the violent magic now rewriting her body from the inside out, Mara has only one rule left:

Survive.

But the deeper she goes, the clearer the truth becomes. The Briars aren’t wild. They’re wounded. And someone has been carving living Cathedrals apart for profit.

THORNBLOOD SAINT: THORNBORN is a dark, savage LitRPG adventure packed with brutal combat, monstrous forests, blood-soaked progression, and a heroine too angry to die.


Genre: GameLit

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