On the eve of her ascension, Kaelara of the Thessalian Amazons must survive three trials to earn her iron crown. The first guardian is Briareos the Vigilant-a Hecatoncheires of mountainous scale, primal hunger, and one hundred grasping hands. When blade and blood fail her, Kaelara discovers the trial's true cost: not death, but total surrender. To pass, she must submit her warrior's body to a storm of insatiable desire-bruised, stretched in every way, and ruthlessly claimed by a monster whose touch transcends agony into devastating ecstasy...
On the eve of her ascension, Kaelara of the Thessalian Amazons must survive three trials to earn her iron crown. The first guardian is Briareos the Vigilant-a Hecatoncheires of mountainous scale, primal hunger, and one hundred grasping hands. When blade and blood fail her, Kaelara discovers the trial's true cost: not death, but total surrender. To pass, she must submit her warrior's body to a storm of insatiable desire-bruised, stretched in every way, and ruthlessly claimed by a monster whose touch transcends agony into devastating ecstasy...