The Red Continent

On the Red Continent, citizens don't protest war, they protest peace. Because in this land, conflicts once decided by clashes of rival armies are now settled in single combat between champions of royal blood.

Caught between rival imperial powers and a population stricken with blood lust is Prince Leander Thorn and Princess Alexia Varela. Leander was never supposed to be his family's champion but Alexia was born to be hers. Beautiful and deadly with a tongue as sharp as her sword, Princess Alexia is the commoner's favorite distraction and the noble's biggest object of envy and desire. Alexia has never met her equal in or out of the arena, but that all changes when she meets Leander following his first victory. Despite her resistance she falls hard for the genuine Prince Leander. But when he is implicated in the assassination of Alexia's little sister Penelope Leander is drawn into the arena once again, but this time he faces a scorned Alexia convinced of his guilt. With the whole world watching and Leander refusing to fight, Alexia will have to decide whether to kill the man she loves or take a leap of faith and trust in his innocence.