A Dance of Thorns and Petals by Brandon Rohrbaugh

Eighteen men enter the arena. Only one will survive. And one of them… is not a man at all.

When her twin brother is chosen to fight in the Emperor’s deadly Thorn Trials, a brutal, five-round competition where the victor wins the crown and the hand of the princess, nineteen-year-old Evaine Vale makes a desperate decision.

She cuts her hair. Binds her chest. And takes his place.

Now disguised as her brother, she must outwit and outlast seventeen others in a bloodstained arena filled with shifting terrain, vicious beasts, and deadly traps. But as the trials grow more brutal, Evaine finds herself drawn to a forbidden love, Cassian Varo, a strong, mysterious competitor with secrets of his own, and a touch that sets her blood on fire.

Category: Fantasy Romance