Thawed Gladiator: Sulla
A soldier with one last shot…
Former Army Major Reid Blackwood has survived combat deployments and a career-ending betrayal by the commanding officer who set her up to fail. What she can’t survive is watching her father lose the medical care that’s keeping him alive.
Winning the TV show Elite Crucible—thirty days of survival challenges in the brutal Scottish Highlands—is the only option she has left.
Win the money. Get home. Resist him.
…a gladiator who woke from the ice with everything left to prove…
Ever since Sulla was thawed after two thousand years in the frozen sea, he has fought to become something other than the cruel bastard he was in ancient Rome.
The men he once treated without mercy remain skeptical. Forgiveness isn’t something they’re ready to grant.
So Sulla treats redemption like training: daily, deliberate, and without excuses.
In the Highlands, he meets the one woman who makes every punishing mile matter—enough to race across a collapsing bridge rather than watch her fall.
…and a partnership built one act of trust at a time.
Rope bridges over ravines. Freezing river crossings. Forty-eight hours of pursuit in darkness. Cameras everywhere.
Somewhere between brutal challenges and sharing body heat through freezing Highland nights, Reid stops being Sulla’s partner and becomes more important to him than any prize.
For a man who believes he ruins everything he touches, letting himself love her feels like the cruelest risk of all.
Thawed Gladiator: Sulla is a high-heat, forced proximity, survival challenge, redemption romance in the Awakened from the Ice series by USA TODAY Bestselling author Alana Khan.
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Alana Khan
Alana Khan writes where the heart meets the stars, blending raw human emotion with the thrill of otherworldly adventure. A USA Today bestselling author, she has built a devoted following across the worlds of sci-fi and monster romance, crafting stories that are as emotionally charged as they are unapologetically steamy.
Before she began creating alien warriors, battle-scarred heroes, and fierce heroines fighting for love among the stars, Khan worked as a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and PTSD. That background threads through every page she writes. Her characters, whether human, hybrid, or something far stranger, are never simple archetypes. They are survivors. They carry wounds, face inner darkness, and heal through connection. It is this emotional depth that gives her romantic universes a pulse that feels utterly real, even when set light years away.
Awakened From the Ice
Awakened From the Ice consists of nine books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
