The Blade and the Last Sacrifice
The second instalment in Elizabeth May's thrilling and sexy romantasy series, perfect for fans of Raven Kennedy.
AN EMPRESS BOUND BY BLOOD. A GOD BOUND BY HATE. A CHOICE THAT COULD SHATTER TWO WORLDS.
Theodora Devaliant wasn't born to rule - she was born to bleed. The last Anchor of a cursed royal bloodline, her body alone upholds the fragile veil between divine and mortal realms. When her life is threatened and demigods are found slaughtered in her streets, the god-king issues an ultimatum: marry, produce an heir, or watch the realms burn. To ensure she survives long enough to comply, he sends his most lethal Enforcer to guard her.
Bastien has spent centuries nursing his hatred for the Devaliant family. Convinced Theodora is behind the murders, he'll use his assignment as her bodyguard to gather proof and watch her empire crumble. But as desire blurs the lines between enemy and ally, the body count rises, and evidence points to a conspiracy that could shatter both their worlds.
Because when duty and desire collide, and the veil between gods and humans begins to tear, choosing wrong doesn't just mean death - it means apocalypse.
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Elizabeth May
Elizabeth May writes the kind of stories that blur the boundary between myth and memory, between rebellion and longing. Born in California but rooted in Scotland, she carries the cadence of both places into her novels: sunlit imagination tempered by windswept grit. Readers first met her through The Falconer trilogy, a series where fae magic, vengeance, and steampunk invention collided in a whirlwind of danger and desire.
Her writing thrives on contrasts. With Laura Lam, she co-created the Seven Devils duology, a feminist space opera often described as Mad Max: Fury Road among the stars. More recently, she turned to Slavic-inspired romantasy with To Cage a God, a tale of revolution, sacrifice, and love that earned recognition on Paste Magazine’s Best New Books list. Under the name Katrina Kendrick, she explores historical romance, proving that whether the setting is an empire at war or a glittering ballroom, her characters always burn with intensity and conviction.
Broken Accords
In a kingdom where treaties are sealed with blood and monarchs are sacrificed to keep fragile gods at bay, survival is bound to rituals as old as the crown itself. The Broken Accords series unfolds in a world shaped by dangerous bargains, where devotion can be as lethal as betrayal.
The story begins with Bryony Devaliant, a princess raised beneath the shadow of sacrifice, and Evander, the Wolf, an immortal assassin who has spent centuries carrying out the will of a god-king. When their paths collide, attraction sparks against a backdrop of rebellion, prophecy, and death itself. What begins as an impossible clash of duty and desire spirals into a tale where every vow carries a price, and every heartbeat might tip the balance between ruin and salvation.
Broken Accords consists of one book and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
