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STORY DESCRIPTION:
When the raiders leave his small town in ash, chains deliver Maxen Marcell to Harrowgate-the great river city where spectacle is law and the Red Sand spends men like coins. Maxen is supposed to die quickly. Instead he survives, and in the roar of the arena he catches a single impossible gaze from the city's princess, Isola-the woman whose quiet lists keep Harrowgate breathing.
Elevated from slave to steel, Maxen learns the city's other games: oaths meant to hold, commands meant to bend, and the soft rebellions that begin in doorways and end by the water. With a bright-mouthed ally in Jalen, a healer who stitches with opinions, and a bartender who salts advice like soup, he finds a rough family in a place that eats its best people. But Harrowgate has plans for its champions, and the Order that arms him also weighs him-heart, blade, and future-against the needs of stone and river.
Dark, intimate, and talk-forward, Gladiator's Heart is a medieval romance of iron and tenderness: brutal arenas, secret letters, and a slow-burn love that refuses to look away. When duty and desire collide under the city's blue banners, Maxen must decide whether a man can keep his oaths-and his heart-without setting the whole city on fire.
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