The Blood Trials by E M Blackmore

In the forgotten realm, survival is a slow, brutal death.

Nerezza has spent over a century scraping by in the shadows of a realm that devours the weak. Food is scarce, mercy even rarer, and hope is a dangerous luxury she can't afford.

The Blood Trials, a deadly competition held once every three hundred years, are nothing more than a cruel spectacle for the entertainment of the High Fae. Or so she believes.

Until her name is chosen.

Thrown into a game designed to pit six contestants against impossible odds, Nerezza is dragged far from the only life she's ever known and into a world ruled by gods, power, and buried secrets. Each trial pushes her closer to death, into unlikely alliances, and toward a truth she's spent her life hiding.

Because Nerezza carries a power that was never meant to exist. Never meant to be seen.

As the walls close in, so does something far more dangerous. A growing attraction to the enemy she was warned not to trust, a man who walks the line between salvation and ruin.

And in a game where survival means becoming something monstrous, the greatest threat may not be the trials or the other contestants... but what she's willing to become, and who she's willing to fall for, to survive them.

Perfect for readers of romantasy, enemies-to-lovers, and epic fae fantasy.