Starside

🔥⚔️  GODS.  MONSTERS.  BETRAYAL.  VENGEANCE.  ⚔️🔥

From bestselling author Alex Aster comes an addictive adult romantasy that will have you turning pages long past midnight.

Centuries ago, a devastating war shattered the world in two.  On one side lies Starside, a breathtaking realm of immortals, gods, and limitless magic.  On the other is Stormside, where mortals struggle to survive on the scraps left behind.

Every fifty years, the gates between the realms open.

Every fifty years, fifty challengers risk everything.

And most never return.

For Aris, this deadly journey isn't about glory, power, or riches.  It's about revenge.

Ever since a goddess burned her village to the ground and stole everyone she loved, Aris has lived for one purpose... making the gods pay.

To reach them, she must first survive the Culling, a brutal competition where only the strongest earn the chance to cross into Starside.  As an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice, Aris has no noble blood, no powerful allies, and no legendary lineage to save her.

But when she claims a rare enchanted sword infused with ancient power, everything changes.

Now she's no longer overlooked.

She's hunted.

Beyond the gates waits a realm more terrifying than the legends ever warned.  Ancient monsters roam the wilds.  Magic fueled beasts stalk the darkness.  Immortals kill without mercy.  And something ancient is awakening beneath the earth... something so terrifying that even the gods fear its return.

With enemies on every side and a secret tied to her family's death threatening to unravel everything she thought she knew, Aris finds herself forced into an uneasy alliance with the one man she should never trust, Harlan Raker.  He's the ruthless king's guard who betrayed her years ago... and may be the only reason she survives what lies ahead.

Because vengeance was only the beginning.

And when the truth finally comes to light, not even the gods will be ready for the storm Aris unleashes.

✨ Perfect for readers who crave deadly trials, enchanted swords, fierce heroines, morally grey love interests, ancient secrets, and world ending stakes.