Mbali_Xabela

The death of the High King’s only son initiates the King Trials; demanding the eldest pureblood from each Regnum. Aurora, the estranged and bastard-born daughter of Regnum Valwa, is the only female among eight other Herems. One of noble blood who lived her life in destitution, with her mother and her ill-stricken father and brother. She is blood-bound to compete in the King Trials on the bargain that if she represents Regnum Valwa, her father and brother will receive the treatment they so desperately need.

However, this is no easy feat, she is faced against ruthless rivals, dangerous mythological beings and creatures, forced to fight in bloody duels with an onslaught of death-defying challenges that forges a woman into a warrior; a scoundrel into a soldier. A chronicle of duty and bravery, a story brimming with riveting action, an enemies-to-lovers romance with war-provoking betrayals that reveal they are all pawns in a much larger game.

The King Trials: The Sajatai Saga

The more I gain consciousness, the more the pain strengthens.

My eyes peel open, and life welcomes me back into being. I shift slightly, feeling the goose feather bed beneath me with pillows akin to tufts of clouds. And a white sheet laid over me, spun from spider silk, sumptuously soft. Both of my arms are bandaged at different places, surrounded by minor scrapes and cuts.

The sheet is raised to my chest, pain hampering even the tiniest of movements. I lift it up to peek at the gauze on my side. My discoloured stomach billows with bruises from light shades of inflamed red, tints of yellow to a dark purple. I release the sheet.

Chapter 44