Shadow Trials: An Epic Slowburn Romantasy (Heartless Gods Book 1)

Fiona has spent every waking hour of her life training to destroy creatures like him — so why does the God of Darkness's champion make her feel something far more dangerous than hatred?

In a world where the Godforged — monstrous beings crafted by the gods to wage their eternal wars — treat humans as little more than livestock, Fiona is one of the few who fights back. Armed with divine magic she's stolen and carefully hidden, she's dedicated herself to protecting her people from the creatures that haunt their nights and devour their futures.

When the God of Darkness loses his champion, he opens his brutal selection trials to all challengers — even humans. For Fiona, it's an opportunity too devastating to ignore. Win, and she commands his army. Win, and she decides how that army treats the innocent. Lose, and she dies among monsters who would relish every moment of it.

What she doesn't anticipate is *him* — the dark god's brooding, infuriating enforcer who sees through every competitor yet somehow can't seem to look away from her. He's everything she was built to hate. She's everything he was built to destroy. And the slowburn tension crackling between them is becoming harder to dismiss than the horrors lurking in every trial.

Shadow Trials blends the savage thrill of competition fantasy with simmering romantic tension, chilling horror, and a heroine who refuses to be anyone's prey — including her own heart's.