The Golden Reaper

Veyra, Queen of Valkyros, has earned her name in blood.

Across the kingdoms, she is known as the Golden Reaper—a goddess-blessed queen who protects women and refuses to allow any of them to live enslaved beneath the rule of men. But when she discovers that kings have betrayed the accords meant to protect them, Veyra marches her army across their borders and brings those responsible to their knees, determined to protect the innocent.

Now, after executing two kings, only three kingdoms remain beyond her rule, and she offers them a choice: bend the knee and submit to her demands, or she will march her warriors into their kingdoms and take their crowns by force. But if they wish to keep their crowns, they must earn the right—first by facing one another, and whoever remains standing in the end will face her.

But one man has already faced the Golden Reaper.
And died by her blade.

Ronan should have been nothing more than another warrior left behind on a battlefield, loyal to a king she destroyed.
Except Ronan didn't stay dead.

Now he's returned, bargaining for the right to keep his title as heir to the fallen king's throne and making Veyra an offer she never expected. But Ronan is carrying secrets he refuses to reveal, all while looking at her with the same infuriating lack of fear that caught her attention the first time she killed him.

He should be a man she wants nothing to do with. Instead, he becomes the one man she cannot seem to stop thinking about.

And as kings scheme, gods interfere, and fate begins tightening its hold around them both, Veyra may discover that conquering kingdoms was always the easy part.

Because even the Golden Reaper cannot cut her way free from fate.