Where Fae Go to Die

“You will die screaming, or you will make them scream for you.”

Once, the fae were immortal. Their magic built kingdoms—and destroyed them. After the Hollow Wars scorched the world, the empire outlawed magic forever, branding it the source of all ruin.
Now, criminals are thrown into the Ironhold—a mountain prison turned arena—where fae are forced to fight dragons to remind everyone what happens when the law is broken.
Veyra Rhaevorn, a street thief with a sharp tongue, has never been good at following rules. Insubordination will send her to the chopping block faster than any dragon. But when the empire’s reigning gladiator, Zeriel Caelith, claims her as his ward, survival becomes its own kind of war.

He’s ruthless, unreadable, forged in blood. And whatever purpose he sees in her may prove more dangerous than the cage they share.
Because a rebellion is rising. And she might just find herself unwittingly at the center of it.