~ AVAILABLE ON AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/dp/164434193X ~ She hated riding the subway. It was cramped, smelled, and the seats were extremely uncomfortable to sit on for hours on end. Now add a group of crazy mask-wearing, weapon-wielding, maniacs to the ever growing list of reasons why Gemma hated riding the subway. Gemma Conners is your average eighteen year old and for the past two years she's been riding the subway to and from school with no problem. She always expected the same ol' same ol'. Cramped spaces, hard seats, and perverts staring her up and down and "accidentally" bumping into her and blaming it on the train as it jostled people into one another. Never did she expect a group of masked men to rush in and hold everyone onboard hostage, demanding that they all play along with their sick and twisted idea of a "game". It was either that or die. To add on to her ever growing list of problems, one of the passengers onboard just so happens to be Archer Daniels, your typical high school "heartthrob" and Gemma's classmate. Her day just kept getting better and better. With Gemma's luck, she'd be lucky if she lasted five minutes. Yep. She really hated the subway. *Book Cover Credit: Irah Marie* Thanks again for making such an AMAZING cover!❤️

[[ON PAUSE]] Seven guilds. A continent under siege. And a war to tear apart another. Astryd is the Heiress to the Sayaadi. Infamous for nothing more than her brutality and ruthlessness, Astryd has claimed her place as Heiress. For years, she has placed her heart freely into the hands of the guilds and her monarch. But when the King of Assassins is murdered and his body strewn outside a rivaling guild's fortress, her world is plunged into chaos as a war quickly ravages the continent. Queen Ellette's land is dying. For centuries, the legendary order of the Skincarvers has defended the Southern Continent against the rise of otherworldly beasts that plague their days and nights-but, when a new beast emerges, the Skincarvers abandon them. Without their protectors Ellette has no choice other than to wield the power of her crown in a way she has never before, and command the vast continent's legions with the might of her crown alone. Will queen Ellette be able to protect the land she loves without the Skincarvers? With the Assassin Throne left empty, and each of the seven guilds silently battling for their own claim, the continent of Allyra will be a battlefield for alliances once forged and broken. Will Astryd and the Sayaadi emerge victorious? Or will her love for the guilds tear her apart?