Books like The Games Gods Play
Lyra Keres, a clerk for the Order of Thieves cursed by Zeus before she was born so that no one could ever love her, is chosen by Hades as his champion in the Crucible, the deadly contest the gods hold every hundred years to decide who rules Olympus.
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A Promise of Fire
Cat, the Kingmaker who can hear truth through lies, hides from her murderous mother and her destiny as a soothsayer in a travelling circus, until Griffin, an ambitious warlord from the magicless south, takes her to be the weapon that holds his newly conquered realm.
Blood of Hercules
A blood test lands Alexis Hert, who considers herself a survivor rather than any kind of hero, in the Spartan War Academy, where immortality has to be won, gladiators train her for the Coliseum and her professors are the brooding heirs to the underworld.
Powerless
In a kingdom where the gifted Elites rule and the powerless Ordinaries are hunted, a thief named Paedyn Gray hides that she has no power at all, until she saves a prince and is thrown into the deadly Purging Trials.
Trial of the Sun Queen
After twelve years in the prison of Nostraza, Lor is taken out without explanation by the Sun King's guards and made to compete in the Sun Queen trials, a deadly contest whose winner will marry the king.
Phantasma
Ophelia Grimm's sister has disappeared into Phantasma, a deadly game played in a haunted mansion with nine levels whose single winner is granted a wish, and to get through it she accepts the help of a mysterious stranger, Blackwell, at the price of ten years of her life.
A Shadow in the Ember
Princess Seraphena of Lasania was promised before her birth as consort to the Primal of Death, then refused, and she has trained her whole life to make him fall in love with her so that she can kill him and save her dying kingdom.
Dire Bound
When her younger sister is carried across the border by the immortal monsters her country has fought for centuries, Meryn Cooper enlists to reach the front, and finds herself bound to a feral direwolf and fighting through the Bonding Trials beside elite trainees who want her dead.
Quicksilver
Saeris Fane, a thief who steals water in a desert city ruled by an immortal queen, wakes an ancient quicksilver portal by accident and is carried through it into Yvelia, a frozen fae realm, by a warrior called Kingfisher.
Immortal
Liyen, newly crowned heir to a mortal throne after her grandfather's death, wants to free her kingdom from its debt to the immortals and avenge him, and when she is summoned to the Immortal Realm she forms a fragile alliance with the God of War, whom she should not trust.
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Oraya, the human adopted daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, enters the Kejari, a deadly tournament held for the goddess of death, and is forced into an alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she has every reason to fear.
A Fate Inked in Blood
Freya, trapped in an unwanted marriage in a Norse-inspired land, is revealed to carry a goddess's blood, and the ambitious jarl who binds her with an oath orders his son Bjorn to train and protect her, the one man she cannot have.
Serpent & Dove
Lou, a witch hiding on the streets of Cesarine, is forced by a public scandal into marriage with Reid Diggory, a devout captain of the Church's witch hunters, and must hide what she is from a man sworn to burn her kind.