The Ascended

In a world where divine power bleeds into the mortal realm, Thais Morvaren has mastered the art of deception.

To her seaside village, she’s just a fisherman's daughter, serving oysters to summer tourists. In secret, she forges weapons from starlight—preparing for the day she’ll enter the deadly Trials of Ascension.

But Thais doesn't crave immortality or the riches promised to the victors.
Her goal is vengeance.

For she is the half-blood daughter of Olinthar, King of the Gods—the Aesymar whose touch proved fatal to her mother—a consequence all mortals suffer at the hands of the divine.

To take down a god, she must become one.

What she doesn't expect is her twin brother's reckless decision to enter the Trials alongside her—forcing Thais to protect more than just her secret.

Worse still, the selection ceremony binds her to a mentor: Xül. A necromancer prince with blood-soaked hands, a sharp tongue, and dark secrets of his own. From the moment they meet, sparks fly. He's insufferably arrogant, she's stubborn to the bone, and neither has any intention of yielding to the other... or to the heat between them.

Each trial survived brings her closer to godhood, but beneath the spectacle of competition, something ancient and malevolent stalks the shadows of the divine realm—a darkness that threatens to unravel the heavens themselves.

Thais may have entered the Trials seeking vengeance, but the cost of godhood is rising.

Because some stars are forged into weapons.

Others are meant to fall.