Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas (Paperback)

Alexis Hert has spent her life surviving, not believing in destiny, glory, or gods. She is ordinary, overlooked, and painfully human. That changes the moment a blood test marks her as something else entirely.

Admitted to the brutal Spartan War Academy, Alexis learns that immortality is real, earned through combat, strategy, and bloodshed inside an arena where students are forged into legends or destroyed trying. Classrooms are battlegrounds. Lessons are learned with weapons in hand. Mercy is weakness.

Under the relentless training of gladiators Achilles and Patro, Alexis is pushed beyond every limit she knows. Strength must be taken. Power must be claimed. Failure means death. Watching from the shadows are Augustus and Kharon, heirs to the underworld, whose presence unsettles her as much as it draws her in.

Heroes here are not saviours. They are villains sharpened by violence, ambition, and hunger for eternal life. And Alexis is surrounded by monsters wearing human faces.

As her powers awaken, Alexis realises immortality is not a gift. It is a curse wrapped in blood and expectation. The Fates want her to rise, but others want her broken, controlled, or dead.

Hunted by forces both divine and deadly, Alexis must decide who she is willing to become. Because in a world ruled by gods and monsters, survival is no longer enough.